a sunshine-y tuesday

it's tuesday. it's sunshine-y. and it's almost warm {ohio weather has taken a turn for the really-freaking-cold-and-wet lately}


guess what i get to do!


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if you guessed that i get to play cinderella sans fairy godmother yet again, you're right. i get to spend my time indoors doing chores and laundry and finishing up some english work.


i get to do this all week. oh joy.


i suppose it's worth it, since it means i get to go out with the ever-so-lovely evangeline and gabriel on saturday night, but i'd really like to spend some time outside getting some pictures.


well, i might be able to get some of that in.


but at least i don't have an english essay looming over my head anymore. i finished it last night and turned it in today and it's 2000000000000x better than my original paper. now i just have to read two books before monday. and go to play practice on sunday. and borrow haleigh's dress on thursday.


this is gonna be a long week.




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oh, and now the website for my yearbook class isn't loading. which means i have more free time today. i guess i'm okay-ish with that....

a happy rainy cloudy friday

happy friday!


it is super rainy, overcast, cold, and absolutely lovely here today (the fact that i find this lovely is all the more reason for me to move to seattle.)


i'm just glad it's FRIDAY, even though i have an english paper to revise (well........ completely rewrite......) and a mini lab report to write for chemistry. still. it's the weekend and it's a weekend i get to be at dad's, so i get to be lazy. and there's no comedy of errors rehearsal this weekend, so i don't have to deal with that travel mess.


oh, and i found that my favorite bookstore is having a "20% off everything you can fit in the tote!" sale this weekend. made. my. day.


and now for your fill-in-the-blank friday brought to you by lauren at the little things we do...


1. my current obsession is really really hot green tea. and the scripts's music.


2. weekends and friends and books and food and my honeybee make me happy.

3. my greatest strength is pushing myself to my breaking point and doing even better after i break down.


4. the fact that i have to reach my breaking point in order to get something done well is my greatest weakness.


5. my life is topsy-turvy and a total rollercoaster ride complete with loops and stomach clenching drops and heights that are super scary. but still completely amazing and makes for really good writing.

6. in high school i was (or, rather, AM) a theatre nerd, a photo junkie, the awkwardly social butterfly, and the one who procrastinates but always gets her homework done before that class period is even over.

7. when i'm super tired i'm either really nice and bubbly and babbly and social or a total witch with a capital B. or both. i also tend to be incoherent with no connection between my brain and my mouth. and being tired seems to make me hungry. but then again, i'm almost always hungry.........

happy friday!

tick tock tick tock

as a junior, college is getting closer and closer. 
guidance counselors start coming into my classes, various colleges start emailing/calling/sending me letters (because, even though i opted to NOT share my personal information with colleges on my ACT account when i signed up for the test last year, they gave out my personal information. thankssomuch, idiots.), and friends start going on college visits.

this is really stressing some of the other juniors out. PSAT! ACT! college visit! GPA! oh no!


but it's not really stressing ME out. at all. 


for one thing, my ACT is out of the way, and i got a high enough score that it might not even be worth it to take it again in effort to get a higher score.
my gpa is roughly 3.7 (on a 4 point scale, not that weird 5 point honors scale) and i'm ranked 25 in the class (of like 300 people). if i keep a 4.0 this year, that should bump it up some.
the PSAT should be a piece of cake and i will hopefully score high enough to win me some good scholarships. from what i've read and heard, it will be so much less torture than the ACT was (and that was just because it was early and i didn't get enough sleep the night before).


another thing is i know what i want to be. i want to be a physical therapist. easy answer. (well, i also want to be a writer. but i don't need a degree for that.)


but i haven't gone on any college visits. at all. mostly because almost all of the colleges i want to go to are out of state. north carolina, tennessee, washington state... and i still don't know which one of those is my top choice.


more recently, i've been leaning towards north carolina. sunny, warm, close to beaches, closer to home than washington... it's just sort of drawing me to it.
but washington, oh washington. i want to live in seattle oh so badly. it's SEATTLE. i love rainy weather. i love semi-coldness. i love the idea of being in a city like that and being close to my canadians and it's SEATTLE. and it's far far far far away from this stupid, stupid town.


i'm torn.