Another episode of the school news show aired today. It struggled, it was all about homecoming week, and it had almost no audio, just music. The anchoring had voice overs that didn't go with the lips, because the editor "lost" the audio. Which is really difficult to do, because you ahve to delete the audio, and the video clip to accomplish this. I don't believe we lost anything last year, unless it was because someone taped voer it befoer we could capture it. And then to finish it just ended, no thanks for joinging us, no see you next week, no credits. It just ended. Sigh, Lola, the classes are starting to get crap for thier episodes again. Is it wrong that i'm really enjoying this?

Creepy Kelly Clarkson wrote a song about me. No but seriously though, does this not sound exactly like me?

Grew up in a small town
And when the rain would fall down
I just stared out my window
Dreaming of a could-be
And if I'd end up happy
I would pray (I would pray)

Trying not to reach out
But when I'd try to speak out
Felt like no one could hear me
Wanted to belong here
But something felt so wrong here
So I pray (I would pray)
I could breakaway

[Chorus:]
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
I'll make a wish
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I'll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway

Wanna feel the warm breeze
Sleep under a palm tree
Feel the rush of the ocean
Get onboard a fast train
Travel on a jet plane,
far away (I will)
And breakaway

[Chorus:]
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
I'll make a wish
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I'll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway

Buildings with a hundred floors
Swinging around wild indoors
Maybe I don't know where they'll take me but
Gotta keep moving on, moving on
Fly away,
breakaway

I'll spread my wings
And I'll learn how to fly
Though it's not easy to tell you goodbye
I gotta take a risk
Take chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget the place I come from
I gotta take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway, breakaway, breakaway

I'm currently home by myself, until tomorrow night, and it's beginning to creep me out. Last night I was fine, I got home so late I really didn't care. But tonight I was thinking that if some one were to come, or something was to happen, no one would know until tomorrow whenI didn't show up for church or sunday school, and even then they might think I was sick, and by then it could be too late. That's really a morib thought. But with all the Dru stuff this past spring, I think more about it. I know my parents do too. They're completely paraniod.
So tonight, we had a poker night, and you'll never belive this, but I won! It was kinda funny. I got bored of poker, and decided to go all in, because I wanted to be done, then I won. I did it again, and won, and I did that a few more times, and won the whole thing. Wierd huh? And I even got, I'm not worthies from Aden. Exciting.
Wish me luck in waking up to my alarm tomorrow.

So yesterday was homecoming. Woohoo. I decided the dance was jsut too much, I mean I dressed up for everyone of the dress up days. I think I did my part. But I did my duty as a yearbook staff member, and went to the game and took picutes. This tiem I used my camera, and it went alright, but a non-zoom, manual focus camera is a little tough to manuver at a football game. Especially once it was dark enough for flash. It gets dang heavy. But I think I got at least a few good ones, maybe even some good ones of Vabner. Although, it took me a whiel to figure out wich one he was, being that he wasn't in the program. But long story short, we lost, by one touch down in like the last minute of the game. So I was glad I didn't have to go to the dance an deal with crabby football players. I think we probably had it coming though, after how mean we were to them last year when we beat them at sections, I think we deserved to lose on homecoming. If any diehard fans read this, I probably won't be posting much more because I'll be hanged on Monday.
This morning I woke up at 9, because some one called, and I was the only one home, therefore had to answer the phone. I didn't really feellike sleeping after that, so I went out in th beautiful morning light, and took the rest of my roll of pictures from last nights game. It was so much fun. I think I worked at it for about an hour. Then I went into town, and dropped off my four films at Pamida. And went to the grocery store, being as we have no food. While I was checking out, one of my classmates asked me if I still live with my parents. AndI'm like well..yes. It struck me as so odd. Do I seem like some one who would choose to live on their own during high school? I never thought so. Well it's a gorgeous day. I think I'm going to go walking. Have a happy post homecoming weekend.

So I'm sitting here in Englsh on retro day, in my best 80's atire. I had no say in the homecoming days this year, I missed that meeting, but I'd say retro day was a great idea. Monday was PJday, yesterday was Work uniform day, today es retro day, tomorrow is laundry/mismatch day, and friday is obviously school spirit day. And get this, our homecoming game is against the EGSer's. Big rivalry to falir that night. Glad I'm only going to the game. Although, it would be fun to do Mahinda's idea. She was going to take an EGS football player to the dance, which would work the best if we lost. Although they would most likely be hanged before the first slow song, but ti would stil be very funny.
So last night i satyed up until after midnight to finish my heroes essay, only to find out we get all class persiod today to work on them. Bummer. But now i have the chance to blog, so it's not all bad.
I had the coolest dream last night. I drempt that we had an exchange student staying with us, and apparently it was kinda of a last minute thing, and he was way cute, and had an accent. *swoon* We were both doing our homework in my room, and I think he was learning french from a 70's french correspondance course, and he was appologizing for the horrible tape he had to listen to, but then he could speak perfect english without an accent. That's all I remember. .....and then I found $20. That's bad when you have to use that in your blog. I need to stop blogging, and do something else before I lose my entire audience.
~Gag me with a Spoon

I'm sorry what? I wasn't listening.

I've just noticed that most of my blog entries begin with either Hello or So. Interesting. Shall we see if we can't change that?
Well yesterday, I went to get my painting from the art room after school so I could work on it this weekend, and I talked to Mr. Steg about possibly submitting some of my photography for the Scholastic art contest. Apparently this is a hard one to win, so he basically told me that I'd have actually to know what I was doing. (He said it alot nicer that I just put it, but I was summarrizing(so not how you spell it.)) So, he sent me to the library to get photography books (cost me $4.00 in dairy queen to appease the anti-library brother) and told me to record all the info for each photograph I take from now on. I do have a fun little book that I found at Target for only $1 that I can record this stuff in, but it's a lot harder than just taking pictures. I'm also supposed to experiment with filters etc. sometime, but he has some I can borrow those so I don't have to spend so much money right now. And I learned a fun word from the photography books "juxtapose" it means to place side by side.
Well I have to go and mow the law, do my laundry, come up with a sunday schoo lesson, paint, bring my film into town to be developed, and work on my english essay/scrapbok. Have a lovely saturday, and sunday and however many days/hours it is until I blog again!

Ok, so I knew that saying I wanted harder classes was probably not smart, as fate has an ironical sense of humor. And as I suspected that statement came back and bit me in the posterior big time last night. So far pre-calc has been pretty easy, but yesterday we started difficult facotring, and yeah it was tough. Mahinda, Aden and I worked on MSN on ten problems for oh 3-4 hours. We ended up skipping most of them. And we have a quiz today. Sigh. Dumb manda, you should never say things like that.
On the brighter side of things, I figured out why my alarm clock has been acting up lately. It has this feature where instead of hitting a button for snooze you can just wave your hand in front of a sensor, and it turns off. This is a horrible feature for an alarm clock. I don't even have to wave my hand, I just move and it turns off. It's horrible, so I devised a plan. I placed a CD in front of the sensor, and it worked this morning! Hoorah for Manda's problem solving skills.
Well it's almost time for painting, so i must bid you audeu (I don't know how to spell it) for now. *Mwah*

So, I just completed a homework assignment where I found simpler words for worsd like pwerful. Our school makes me sad. Although ti was harder than the bio crosword puzzle that asked "What you breathe." it was air. Sigh. I heard the funniest thing though, as I was leaving the commons today, a girl behind me and Mahinda said "You know befoer she got pregnant, she was really skinny." And we stopped for a second, looked at each other and bust out laughing. If you dn't go to our school you probably won't get it. And it might be a you had to be there moment. But it was classic. Have a Septemberific day!

So another day another dissapointment. So here's what happened, Leila was telling me at lunch how she had been looking through her mom's old yearbooks, and she found one page that was upside down. It just said in little letter at the bottom"This page it upside down!" And then it was jsut a regular page. Now I thought that was a really fun idea, so I propoed it to the class today, and I got Shot Down, capitol S capitol D. I was completely shocked. Of course I didn't expect everyone to like the idea, but really, what ever happened to constructive critiscism? I didn't even get logicla reason why they wouldn't like, it was jsut no, That would look stupid, We're not doing that. Seriously, no one is going to feel safe presenting ideas if they get that kind of reception. I sure don't feel like presenting ideas any more, and I'm one of the editors.
But on the brighter side of things I finally got my picture drawn onto my canvas for art. I start painting Monday! and I get to use the big fun film camera at the football game tonight. yey for that. I also have very little homework. So it coudl be a good weekend, first sunday school in this sunday, and another Breathe. Yey! And apparently every senior in Art gets to sign up fr two weeks to display thier art in the display case at school, so I guess I picked the right year to be in art then huh? The only problem is, I don't know ifI'll have enough art to fill a case. We'll see.

This year, I've already been very cynical. I was telling Leila in English how I was really positive in my journal entry last night, but then we both read the first sentence "Today was not a good day." Oh well, I tried. But I decided that instead of being miserable an grumpy all year I can become pro-active. So today I brought my college application, ACT form, Journal, and a book with me to every class. It worked rather well. I had enough time to fill out my apps as far as I could, and I just finished my book. So that translates to waaaaaaay too much free time in school.
If it didn't take os much concentration, what I realyl should do is try to get my picture drawn on my canvas for art, but that's too big and hard to do during class.
Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but I have photos to caption, canvases to draw on, and sleep to loose. Tata!

SO I haven't blogged in a while. Sorry my poor neglected blog. Well lets start with my wild and crazy labor day weekend. So Saturday I babysat most of the day, and then headed to Great Spoons to get a scrapbook for my scrapbok project. Although I was on the phone with Wonder Woman while I drove over there, and managed to miss my exit for Target, and drove an extra 14 miles, because there are no exits on freeways up here. Sunday I had church, and Leila and I spent most of the dya finding stuff ot decorate our sunday school room with, and decorating our sunday school room. It was alot of fun. My parents were at the lake that day, so Leila and Mahinda spent the night to protect me from my Blair Witch woods. We realized what nerds we are when we spent the evening quizing each other out of a trivia book, discussing novels, and making things out of Reese's wrappers. Oh well, we're sober, clean and not pregnant. Works for me.
So school today was a complete waste of my time. What did we do? Nothing! I hate people wasting my time. It drives me nuts. If people don't bring pictures tomorrow for art I will personally slap each one. sigh. But I had an interesting dream during my nap after school. I drempt that there were a ton of people at my house, many EGSer's too. And Vabner (we're going to call him Vabner because he should actually be abner, but that gets confuing with two) asked for some ice cream. So I was trying to get it for him, first Wonder Woman ate it, then Mahinda did, then someone poured tea or soemthing into it, then I couldn't find him. Then suddenly we were camping, and my pastors were there, and used the last of the ice cream. So moral of the dream, don't ask me ot get you ice cream, if you're hungry.
I'm out of ideas. Blog more later.

Well hello. Today was my last first day of school. Woo Hoo. That's really fun to say. My last last day will be way better, but this is good to get out of the way too. So it was syllabusfull fun today at Crappsville high school. We got the annual lecture from Mr. K. about being good to the lunch ladies, treating the school with respect and he told us to keep our drugs at home, because they will be training drugs dogs once a week in our school from now on. They're still locking us in teh commons for lunch, so forget your water bottle in the car? Too bad you have to pay for one. Muahahahha.
I have good classes this semester though. Senior Englsih sounds like it will be fun, even if it's not terribly challenging. Mr.D is introducing a new novel extra credit thing though. I like it. Web page might be a pain although interesting. It feels so wrong to be in Mrs. G's room without Lola though. I opened up my folder today, and all my news broadcasting documents were still in there. *sniff* memories. I'm really excited for oil painting though. even though I can't draw or paint worth crap I have tons of ideas of what I want to try to paint. I really hope I can't get discrete. American government will be another government class, Bio will be Bio, and yearbook will be stressfull.
I don't know about you, but I am finding our school system to be very inadequate. I mean come on or math department is a joke. I haven't learned a thing in the past three years. For social we learn the same three areas over and over again. American history, American government, and soem times geography. Why can't we get classes like Sociology, or we definitly need more geography, I didn't even know where Ukraine was before I went there, as a high school senior you should have a basic understanding. We also need world history, the only world history class offered in European history, and that's only one semester.
I hate and love that senior year is a sluff year. I did my best to get non-sluff classes, but they really don't want to work with me. I really want to learn stuff, but I may just have to teach myself. Sigh.