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ZOMG you guyz differential equations is sooo hard Not to worry I am sure it will get more difficult. But hey! That's 15% of my grade right there. w00t. Also, how do you score between zero and fifteen points on a 100 point test? I do not understand this phenomenon.
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For one, this article makes me happy. What's this, Andrea wants to see a movie? Oh wait, it's based on a book...sort of. That must explain it. =P On a similar note, I have acquired a copy of half of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works on Sherlock Holmes, and since I am reading it IN ORDER I finished A Study in Scarlet and am now reading The Sign of Four - can't wait for the short stories! I know I started reading something of Sherlock Holmeses years ago, and cannot now remember exactly why I didn't like it. Anyway. Excited for movie. =D The second kind of excitement involves vacationing! Sort of. I will be getting up too early tomorrow morning to fly to Oklahoma for a convention. ASK has an annual convention and this year it happens to be at my school, so I get to go! (everyone is invited anyway, but I think usually it's mostly delegates from each chapter. Since we're hosting, we are all strongly encouraged to go, especially so we can, you know, help people not get lost and stuff.) So that should be fun. My suitcase, by the way, contains no denim (unless you count the maroon capris which may or may not be denim, but in any case are not blue), although it does contain four skeins of yarn (well, one is in my purse). The yarn is, I suppose, another kind of excitement - tonight I finished crocheting a scarf resembling a strip of bacon (my mother's idea, or possibly my aunt's, though they would never have managed to assemble it if I hadn't taken over). My next project will be a scarf in the form of a green onion. I possess off-white, light green, and dark green yarns, and a slightly more stringlike light brown yarn for the stringy bits at the end. Yay for crocheting without a pattern! =D Perhaps I will post a picture of the bacon-scarf later - probably after I get back from OK. (And speaking of pictures, Stacy, if you're reading this... XD) I would still love to have a 1776 party (or any other kind of gathering) before I leave for reals. That is on the 16th, and I get back from this trip on the 9th. Stacy, I am holding your book hostage until such time as this gathering occurs. Hahaha. (oh darn, you have mine too. It's much less of a threat that way...) With thoughts of love and old-fashioned hobbies, cezannescrayons
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And time to do something about it!! So, I hear that a number of you are on Spring break also right now, or perhaps at LHS and still able to do stuff in evenings. So. I'll be here until next Sunday? I am particularly interested in (a) viewing(s) of (a) movie(s), such as 1776 or whatever else anyone wants to come up with. I will take this opportunity to un-volunteer my house as a location for such events, as it is in the process of being painted/recarpeted/reorganized and is definitely not in a fit state for visitors. Nor is our TV system entirely assembled at the moment, come to think of it. I will also probably be going to Sakura Square/Pacific/whatever it's called to get lots of candy and examine all the Japanese things I still can't read. Anyone else interested in going/driving? Also open to suggestions of a great number of possibilities, of course. I'm busy on Monday and Tuesday mornings for sure (who would want to do stuff in the mornings, anyway? pah! silly morning people) but the rest of my schedule is remarkably open as of now. Hope to see you soon!
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Okay, first things first. Coming home tomorrow, one more final tomorrow morning for which I still need to study some more, and if you haven't heard, there's a party at my house on Dec. 30th. Ask me if you need more info - I'll be sending it out in the next few days, or talking to people at the IB thingy on Thursday. Now that that's over: click here. Read the whole article. Notwithstanding the blatant misspelling of "Adolf" as "Adolph" in the caption, what do you think? These parents have done this three times, for all of their kid's birthdays. And look at the names of the other children: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell? WTF? And they talk about it being "the time for change," etc, etc - but they named these kids (or at least little Adolfie) three years ago, when no one could have guessed that Obama would be the next president or that "change" would be the word of his success! The parents have also asked at least once for a swastika to be included on the objectionable cake. There is, to be sure, more evidence of extreme eccentricity in the remainder of the article, but I shall leave you, dear reader, to discover it yourself. And then comment about it. Because comments are good. 'til next time, A.
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I THINK I GOT AN A ON MY O-CHEM TEST TODAY OMG I am sooo happy. This means I don't have to freak out about the final (as much, LOL) and also that I might actually get higher than a C in the class! w00t! See? See? I do know chemistry! SO THERE, multiple choice tests, SO THERE. And in about ten minutes I will be off on some kind of journey until probably Sunday afternoon, so do not be expecting any contactment from me until then. If it's important, text me. Or just text me even if it's not important, LOL. And there are only two more school days 'til Thanksgiving break! Yaaaaay!
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Ehem. So, most of the girls in my hall are really nice, but there's one in particular who seems a bit of the airhead-y cheerleader type. I'm sure you know what I mean. I believe I posted about her once before, actually - the phone conversation in the hallway? Well, she's at it again - arguing back and forth about how he doesn't listen and how she's sorry she wasn't more reassuring, and I just realized whom she reminds me of. Did any of you ever watch The Amanda Show? (I loved it - yay silly humor! I wonder why I'm so fond of Monty Python and Jon Stewart =P) Okay, now imagine Amanda playing a gum-chewing high school socialite talking on the phone to her boyfriend. The back-and-forth, the only hearing half of what's being said (since it's on the phone), the tone of voice - exactly. And while it's great on children's TV, it's not quite so nice when it's right outside your door and you can't shut it off. In other news, I would have finished the first season of BWOC today (I've been on the LAST EPISODE for AGES) but my computer decided to be a loser and not only shut down Firefox repeatedly, but also bluescreen once. The Firefoxes weren't quite so bad, since the program kindly saves tabs when it quits unexpectedly, but I HATE BLUESCREENS. A LOT. x.x;; So, all in all, I'm still only halfway through the episode. Boo. Is everyone coming back to Colorado for Thanksgiving? I'm leaving OK on Tuesday evening and I think I'm flying back on Sunday. Anyone up for estate saling, auction housing, or a nice Thai lunch? Other suggestions welcome! ^^
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I really don't have time to post right now - but I happened to catch today's Buttercup Festival before I signed off, and I really like it. ^^
Ooh, hotlinking. Bad Andrea. (I assume few enough people view my journal that it will not be a big deal XD) Off to class now! ttyl! |
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Whut. Well, assuming that "nostalgic" means "resentment and a healthy portion of hatred" and "seeming simplicity" means "endless fact memorization and circular timelime," then yes. But if the author of this question was using the more ordinary definitions for those terms, then I don't get it. Simplicity? We were *this close* to nuclear war. Multiple times. Sure, views were simple black-and-white, but decisions (for politicians at least - I can't really speak for the general population, since a) I wasn't born yet, and b) I haven't studied that portion of the Cold War in any sort of depth) were at least as complicated as they are today - one had to consider the opinions of one's constituents, the stance of the rest of the world (or, more likely, numerous stances of different countries), and the short- and long-term effects of any actions one might wish to take. Just like today. Therefore in conclusion this question is a moron. Moving on. I know I haven't posted in ages, and I'm not even going to bother trying to remember all the interesting stuff that's happened. Everything is going basically okay. We had a really odd math project due last week, a math test the prior class, a physics test two Wednesdays ago, and I have another Japanese test and my first O-Chem test next Monday. Fun. Also, I am now a candidate for a sorority! (That's the sort of joined-but-not-yet-initiated stage.) It's Alpha Sigma Kappa, the Women in Technical Studies sorority, abbreviated ASK when we're too lazy to find the Sigma key. =P It's a very small group as sororities on this campus go, and it's not panhellenic either - it's not big enough nationally, I think, and they probably wouldn't want it anyway! The girls are all very nice and nerdy and I like them a lot. But anyway, the reason I brought all this up is that tonight I went to the monthly dinner for ASK (theme: finger food) and I was talking to one of the other candidates, who mentioned that a lot of people have knee problems. I believe her exact wording was something like "everyone," actually. I commented that perhaps this is in part because people without knee problems don't bother advertising that fact to everyone else around them, which led to a rather interesting mental conversation about what exactly the aforementioned situation would sound like - perhaps something like "I'm so glad I don't have any knee problems! I can walk around on unlevel ground and up and down stairs all I want and not have any painful negative consequences! I know, it's so unusual, right? I was sort of worried about it - I mean, knees are supposed to be injured, aren't they? everyone else's seem to be - so I went to the doctor's office and had them examine me. Look, here's the X-ray - look at the perfect alignment of all those bones! And the cartilage is hardly worn away at all! The doctor said I have the best knees he's ever seen, isn't that amazing?" Yeeeeah my brain is on a sugar high or something. Too many scones probably. *nomnom scones*
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For your convenience, I have decided to relate this story in the form of a numbered list. Also because it is funnier. =D This happened yesterday, beginning around...oh...eight o'clock or so, when I was getting ready to go to class. Andrea is getting dressed... 1) Put on pants. And so, eight flights of stairs and a rather large portion of lame later, I was not best pleased. Oh well - it is entirely my own fault, after all =P I tried to record bits of the chem lecture this morning with my phone but they did not come out very clearly. We shall see. o.o Japanese studying time nao!
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Yeah yeah I know I haven't done my big photo post yet - it is coming! Really! The pictures are even mostly taken, depending on whether I find anything else cool to photograph. So that will be later - this evening, maybe, or tomorrow? But anyway. I just had my first class this morning - Organic Chemistry, w00t. I don't think I'll have too much trouble with it, since we covered pretty much everything at least a little bit last year in IB. The professor is pretty awesome - he was born in the USSR (current Ukraine) so he has a cool Russian accent, haha. It's not too hard to understand him, though, which is good. And - wait for it - he was a major in the Red Army! XDDD His name is long and difficult so we get to call him Dr. Solo instead (his full name is Vadym Soloshonok) and we have a TA who I believe is Japanese and whom we are supposed to call Masa because his name is also difficult. =D I have to go to Japanese followed by physics followed by engineering orientation soon (yes three classes right in a row - awesome, right?), but I still have fifteen minutes or so before I have to leave...not really enough time to start the photo-post madness so that will still have to wait. Aah I am sort of scared for Japanese because I can't speak it at all x.x but since it is a beginning level class hopefully that is acceptable XDDD Talk to you all later! ^^
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It is almost time to go off to college, and that means...wait for it...TB test time!! I'm sure everyone is already aware of the multitudinous trials of this topic for one of our number (which, if you are not aware, included pain, suffering, and missing out on a Laser Tag Adventure). Now, I, So anyway. Today I had to go to the doctor to get a meningitis shot and a TB test. The lady giving the shots was some kind of freaking moron or something, or else just too old to have reliable motor control. She gave me the meningitis shot in a region of my arm best described as "shoulder" (what?!) and then did the TB test wrong, twice, before my mother suggested that "someone else give it a try." The new lady, oh let's see, did it right the first time she tried (or at least did not give me another one...more on that later). So now I have multiple puncture wounds on BOTH ARMS, though fortunately none of them hurt much (the TB ones were stinging a bit earlier, and the meningitis one is some kind of muscle injection if my sources are not mistaken so it aches just a tiny bit too, but nothing too major). Also, none of the three attempted TB tests managed to raise a wheal on my arm(s), and all the information on the Internet says that in that case the test should be repeated, as the injection was subcutaneous instead of intradermal. Maybe the medical professionals know better than the Internet? Or maybe they just gave up...? I dunno. Anyway, we'll see if I test positive *cough* =D In other news: I'm getting a new cell phone! It should have the same number, I think, so no worries about that. Yesterday evening I had it narrowed down to two phones from two different service providers (t819 from T-Mobile and the LG Vu from AT&T) and had pretty much decided on the Vu, but today my dad decided that hey wait actually Verizon was an option (thanks, Dad) and so now I will probably be getting the LG Dare (very similar to the Vu, only with a better camera, not useable overseas, and with no French capabilites ;-;). It looks sort of like an iPhone, and it is a touch-screen phone, only less Apple-y, haha. ^^ I REALLY NEED TO WORK ON THAT STORY NOW ;-; The deadline's been pushed up and now I only have six days left! O.O;;
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Just because I haven't posted in a while. I am an intelligent young adult, really still just a girl at heart, worried about friends, college, love, and life - and hoping that somehow everything will work out in the end. Get what you can out of that, eh? It's not really all of me, but it does describe quite a portion of my self - or at least I think so. I have a gajillion books to read because I was reading this absurd bit of Harry Potter fanfiction and it kept referencing interesting classics, most of which I'd never actually heard of but that sound good anyway. We'll see how many I get around to finding and reading. Haha. In a couple of days I'm off to OU for Camp Crimson - sort of an orientation thingy, I think. I hope it's fun. We're having a Retro Night, apparently - I had to borrow a nice 60s-ish dress from one of my mom's friends because I didn't feel like wearing anything I already had. Second choice was a flapper dress, but that might have been too retro to be retro - heading back towards antique. I suppose the 1920s aren't technically antique yet (100 years, right? or am I just making that up?) but the "suggested ideas" list only went back to the 1950s ;-; Oh well, the dress is still awesome. I am trying to come up with a way to be able to keep it after the trip. "Dress? I don't remember you lending me a dress...nope...doesn't ring any bells..." XDD By the way, today's xkcd was really hilarious for some reason. I love xkcd. ^^
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OMGOMGOMG *hyperventilates* Results in seven hours or so. Presumably Ms. Tucker already has them and has perhaps even sent them out to us in real live envelopes, but I'm certainly not waiting for them to come in the mail! I don't really have anything to say except that I am freaking out just a little bit. I want to see how I did!! (and yet of course I hope I did well) I really should go to sleep now and check in the morning...I'm tempted to stay up 'til 8:15 AM but I know that would be a very bad idea =P I'm also tempted to read some more of The Host (CURSE YOU STEPHENIE MEYER, WITH YOUR TEMPTING VAMPIRES AND SPACE ALIENS!! YOU HAVE DISCOVERED MY LITERARY WEAKNESS[ES]!!!) Okay I'm rambling. Better sign off before I start doing something really weird - well, weirder than normal. =P
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So I just found these pants in my room that I bought a couple years ago for Spirit Day purposes. I really have no further use for them (and never did get around to wearing them for Spirit Day) as they are approximately three parts goth and twelve parts obnoxious orange and black. Anyone have any LHS buddies who wear size 7? I provide a link to the pants on the Hot Topic website for your viewing convenience: here. ^^
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So I just read my yearbook and now I miss everyone! ;-; All my friends are so nice and say awesome things about stuff we did and how we should do more cool stuff this summer (often interspersed with messages like 'OMG you are so smart' XD) - but summer's a month gone and it just seems like we still haven't done anything. ;-; (This last is logically false because we have done at least a couple of things, but that doesn't stop my brain from complaining anyway.) Thus, in conclusion, we should do some more stuff! Ahem. Anyway, in real-life news, I have a new learner's permit, haha. As yet no one has bothered to take me out driving though. Hmm, how does this work I wonder? Also, my parents decided that I should have a checking account and thus now I do - I currently have a debit card but no checks. I want to find some really awesome ones - any suggestions? ^^ I think I'd like to buy a Demotivator to put on my desk at college, but probably only one since the only sizes they have are desk-y and giant-poster and also they are kind of expensive. And my desk would look kind of stupid with seventeen little desktoppers on it, wouldn't it? XDDD Okayz, time to go read some more Stephen King - mmm, Dark Tower series. I'm on book four (of seven) and sometime I have to go to a bookstore and pick up number six - it's the only one I don't have, for some reason. =P Oh well, still a book and a half to go before then! ^^
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Hey, anyone interested in going to the Baby Whale of a Book Sale? It started yesterday and continues today and tomorrow, as far as I can remember. It's up at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, I think - really close to Sarah's house if that's a good landmark for anyone. ^^ I really want to go, and my mom goes pretty much every year, so if anyone else can meet up with me and look at awesome books (it really is a huge sale) and, I dunno, maybe get a burger or something (they had them last year) that would be pretty cool! =D I may also call some (of the non-LJ) people if I'm for-sure going to be able to go at a specific time. LJ is more of a planning-stage instrument than telephones, in my mind at least.
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Soo I got this letter in the mail today (along with some more graduation money, yay ^^) and it's all like 'our name is Vector company and we payz you $15/hr for this awesome job' etc etc. Of course, it didn't actually say what the job was, so my mom looked it up on the internetz. We soon found out that it is a huge scam - basically the job is selling Cutco door-to-door, a new employee has to buy a 'show set' of knives with his own money, and only gets paid for time spent selling when the sale is successful. WTF? Scam scam scam. And can I say it again? Scam. We're now wondering how they got my name and address - from LHS? We see no reason why the school would give scammers students' addresses... Needless to say, I will be ignoring the letter. I'm really just posting this 1) as a warning, in case anyone who reads this would otherwise be so excited by the prospect of $15/hr he would otherwise rush straight ahead without researching, and 2) in the hopes someone else does get the same letter so I will be informed and general hilarity will doubtless ensue. That is all. =D
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So, gueeess who just had another exciting adventure? If you guessed me, you're correct! =DDD I'm trying, really trying, to clean my room, being more than slightly motivated by the fact that even I am having difficulty finding footholds now. Since I really can't get around well enough to put things in their proper places, due to all the other things in improper places blocking my way, I decided that the best way to begin was to claim the front room as a storage facility and stuff everything in there so I can go through it more easily. This has the added benefits of 1) forcing me to make loads of trips up- and downstairs, thus being sort of like exercise; and 2) making me think twice about what things I want to bring back upstairs and put back in my room. I think it is an excellent plan. But anyways, the adventure, yes? While making my way out of my room with an armful of assorted objects, I hit my foot on my bed. I do this quite frequently, I'm still not sure why, but it hurts. There is a metal bit of the bedframe that my foot evidently thinks is a very good place to whack itself on every so often. I didn't think much of it and continued on my merry way downstairs with my pile of junk. After chucking the junk on the couch, I glanced down at my foot and...Graah toes bleeeding!!! which was unexpected because, as I said, I've hit my foot on my bed numerous times before and it has never actually been visibly injured. So I figured I should go get some Kleenex and get the blood off my toes so as not to get it on the carpet (more on that later). Because my house is stupid when it comes to Kleenex and replacing empty boxes of said paper-based product, I had to go through two-and-a-half rooms to find any. Toes, especially smallest toe, did not want to stop bleeding, so - now holding a tissue to my foot and thus hobbling like an idiot - I went back to the kitchen and intercommed my mom. Our conversation went something like this: After Band-Aiding my foot in that sort-of-secure way one always uses with small appendages such as fingers and toes, we went to make sure there was no blood on the carpet. And there was. In six places. And they were really strangely spread out - like, two consecutive steps, then a five-step gap, then another spot, etc. I dunno what my toe was doing. But anyway. We got the spots out and all is good. Except that my toe still hurts. o.o SO. That is my adventure for the day. W00t. Also I think I set a new self-record for amount a small-appendage injury has bled. ^^ Okay, that's all for today. Happy last weekend, senior buddies! See you on Monday! ^^
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This may look like a normal journal entry, but I am writing it by talking to my computer. Evidently it has an attached microphone and speech recognition software! I can do a lot of things with this program, even though it's sometimes a little difficult to figure out the commands. For example, the computer does not seem to like the greater than sign, which I am using to make paragraphs in this entry. Okayz, I done now. (and I think that last sentence confused my computer even more!)
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So. It's Monday. The fifth of May. In other words...IB EXAM TIME. Augh. x.x.x.x This morning was paper 1 of the English exam. The rest of this week is two days (three papers) each of history and chemistry, next Monday is some more English, and next Friday is French. And then IT IS ALL OVAR. Hah. I will be teh most happiest person around. ^^ Anyway. I know I haven't updated in weeks, and I can't really remember the subject of my last entry. I guess I'll start with Prom and associated festivities. (WARNING: This entry is likely to be freaking LONG. Avoid if you do not think this is cool. Sorry, I'm rather verbose.) On Wednesday, I went to Kellye's house to practice the Time Warp and Thriller for the purpose of doing one or both of them at Prom. Stacy, Katie, and Kristen were also there, and maybe some other people I can't remember (not leaving anyone out on purpose, rly! if it's you, sry!!). I sort of learned the Time Warp. Thriller was quickly discarded after we realized how freaking impossible it is (and found a particularly mind-scarring '80s how-to video starring Okay. Now that I've sufficiently '80s-ified all yur brainz, we can continue. On Friday, Kellye picked me up again and we went to a bead store near my house to look for beads with which to make our Prom jewelry. I discovered that it is remarkably difficult to match normal beads (eg crystals) with off-white - I ended up using pearls and some pinkish-purple crystals that actually ended up matching the flower detail on my dress rather well. I made the jewelry (necklace, bracelet, earrings) on Friday night and Saturday morning, with the help of some purportedly invisible string and large quantities of hot glue (knots are overrated). After getting the beads, we went to Kristin's house, where we were met by a few other people for the purpose of continuing to learn the Time Warp. (This second incident provoked a rather amusing comment by my mother to the effect that she thought 'learning the Time Warp' was some kind of code for getting drunk, or somesuch rather amusing nonsense.) After this second dance-session, I was actually getting pretty good at the Time Warp! Surprising, because usually I suck at choreography. XD Saturday = Prom proper. Back to Kristin's house to get ready. I went with Em, and we went to Ulta beforehand to pick up some hair gel/spray/general supplies. I also bought some new makeup - generally a good thing to have, even if I don't wear it often. I wore the same dress I wore for some of my senior pictures, which I bought for $30 at the beginning of last summer (read: after Prom season). Kristin's parents took large quantities of photos of us all before allowing us to set out to find El Jebel. Em and I were somehow the first ones there (well, from Kristin's house anyway - overall, Stacy beat us) and ended up being rather worried that no one else was going to show up before they closed the doors - but thankfully everyone somehow managed it, so all was good. ^^ I ate salmon for dinner (it was pretty good), was dragged onto the dance floor by Sarah, and spent most of the remainder of the night in the restroom playing cards with Stacy and Kelsey. ^^ (Oh, and somehow while I was there I managed to miss the Time Warp ;-; I was actually kind of looking forward to it!) After Prom was okay, once I got there - somehow I don't think Kellye got the memo that I was going with her to After Prom and home afterwards, so I ended up having to catch a ride with one of the administrator-folks. o.O;; The graphologist was mostly right, if a bit repetitive - Stacy, Kelsey, and I all went together, and he tended to use exactly the same phrasing and ideas for at least a couple of us. Also, he said that Kelsey and I were procrastinators - but not Stacy. Meh? I lost 100 fake moneyz playing Blackjack (started with 500) and didn't win any door prizes. I was too tired to trust myself with the various bouncy-inflatable-things (Twister, obstacle course, etc). But still - I guess it was okay, and I'm glad I went just so I can say I did. ^^ We've pretty much just been reviewing in all our classes. Boring. Pretty pointless. After all, who studies in class when they can, say, read? Or play cards? Or sleep? *cough*noone*cough* Oh, and there was the academic awards thingy last Wednesday, at which I won the math award, Kelsey got one of the French awards, and Casey got music. I sat next to Sarah, so she pretty much leaned on me the whole night. No comment, except perhaps a continued discussion of how the hell we're ever going to be able to get her elected president. After all, she's a bit...odd (No offence! It's a good thing! [just maybe not to your average American voter] ^^). Aaand...I think that's pretty much it. I ordered some shoes off the internetz yesterday, and somehow got my mom to order me a swimsuit. I hope they fit. Also, I'm still looking around for a good deal on a tablet. And assorted awesome clothes. o.o My mommy's picking me up soon. I should go study history, but I know I'll probably end up messing around on the internetz or watching TV or something. Oh well - we always knew I was going to fail that one, eh? 'Til next time! ^^
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