The Mellow Drama

1. What time did you get up this morning? my alarm went off at 7:05, but I reset it to 7:45....

2. Diamonds or pearls? Either, as long as no death was involved in obtaining them

3. What was the last movie you saw? Dracula with Erik and Amanda last Saturday

4. Where is the most beautiful place you've ever been? WCYC youth camp in Wisconsin

5. What do you usually have for breakfast? yogurt and grape nuts for pre-class snack and then an omlete and hash browns at the cafeteria

6. What is your middle name? Marie

7. What food do you dislike? beef.

8. What is your favorite CD? Her Majesty by the Decemberists

9. What kind of car do you drive? a '93 Saturn. but only when I need it.

10. Favorite sandwich? the veggie sandwich on tomatoe basil bread from Panera. YUM!

11. What characteristics do you despise? lack of ambition, and complacency with mediocrity.

12. Favorite item of clothing? my gap jeans and my plum colored button up with a golden headband. So cute!

13. If you could go anywhere in the world for a vacation, where would you go? Dublin.

14. What color is your bathroom? White

15. Favorite brand of clothing? I really like certain pieces from the gap, and I really like the non-branded jewlry from AE.

16. Where would you retire? Near my children, or near my brother's children.

17. What was your most memorable birthday? my birthdays are always anti-climatic. I perfer other people's birthdays.

18. Favorite sport to watch? Soccer. In spanish. I don't know what they're saying but damn they are excited about it.

19. Furthest place you are sending this? I don't know

20. Who do you expect to repost this? I don't know

21. Person you expect to repost first? I don't know ! ! !

22. Favorite saying? "welcome to the temple of doom!" bwhahahahaha.

23. When is your birthday? 1-21

24. Are you a morning person or a night person? recently, I'm totally a night person.

25. What is your shoe size? 7

26. Pets? Mikey and London

27. What did you want to be when you were little? an Archeologists. and then an actor and then a high school teacher and now I want to be an assassin. They get all the cool clothes and guns.

28. What are you today? a fundraising consultant.

29. What is your favorite candy? Whatchamacallit's.

30. What is your favorite flower? The kind that are given to me.

31. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? Feb 27th. The peace corps recruiter is coming to LaX

32. What are you listening to right now? honestly, don't tell. but I'm listening to Switch by Will Smith.

33. What was the last thing you ate? Caramel frappichino

34. Do you wish on stars? sometimes I wish I was a star, so I would glow.

35. Do you believe in Angels? on some level, we're all angels.

36. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? blue gray.

37. Pet peeves? the power I give the people around me to put me in a pissy mood.

38. Favorite Television show? Lost, Gilmore girls, and what not to where.

39. Last person you spoke to on the phone? My family's answering machine.

40. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes, she's all that and a bag a chips.

41. Favorite soft drink? Diet mt dew.

42. Favorite restaurant? Buzzard Billy's.

43. Hair Color? Brunette

44. Siblings? One brother - he's 10.

46. What was your favorite toy as a child? teenage mutant ninja turtles

47. Summer or Winter? Summer, summer, summer, summer... but once summer hits my reply will change

48. Hugs or kisses? Jensen hugs. They hug people like they mean it.

49. Chocolate or vanilla? vanilla

50. Do you want your friends to repost this? If you want!

51. When was the last time you cried? Two days ago. I got overwhelmed by stupid stuff.

52. What is under your bed? Soda, storage boxs, posters and re-enacting clothes.

53. Who is the friend you've had longest? I'm only vaguely in-touch with Jessie.

54. What did you do last night for dinner? Spinach and feta pretzel from Starbucks.

55. Favorite smell? rain

57. How many keys on your key ring? 8.

58. How many years at your current job? one year exactly

59. Favorite day of the week? Thursday, cuz all day I'm looking forward to Friday

60. How many towns have you lived in? lots.

61. Do you make friends easily? I meet people easily, but it takes a lot to be counted as a friend.

62. How many folks will read this? The WHOLE thing? maybe 3

63. Are you happy? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I am. 

Stolen from my dear Sarah at HoneyAndApples
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Online journals are little filters that we each see every one else's lives through, the parts others choose to share with us. That said, we all think we are close, but really we seldom know *a lot* about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Tell Me About You
1. Name:
2. Birthday:
3. Place of residence:
4. What makes you happy:
5. What are you listening to now/have listened to last:
6. Do you read my lj:
7. If you do, what is particularly good/bad about it:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. Are you in love/have a crush at the moment:
10. Favourite place to be:
11. Favourite lyric:
12. Best time of the year:
13. Weirdest food you like:
14. Do farts make you laugh:

Recommend
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A band, a song and an album:

Me
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Put this in your lj so I can tell you what I think of you.

What would be your Patronus?
a raven

What would you want your wand to look like/be made out of?
10 inches, rowan and dragon heart strings

If you could be an Animagus, what animal would you be?
a lemur

Would you join D.A. (Dumbledore's Army)?
 Learning new things + resisting authority = sign me up!

Who was the character you hated the most in the books?
Peter Pettigrew and Rita Skeeter

Who were the characters you loved the most?
Lupin and Tonks

What house would you be sorted into at Hogwarts?
Ravenclaw, probably. I'm not patient, or cunning, or even very brave when it comes right down to it, but I do ok at trivial pursuit.

What was your favorite store in Hogsmeade or Diagon Alley?
Flourish and Blotts followed closely by Florean Fortesue's Ice Cream Palor

If you could play Quidditch, what position would you play?
Probably Chaser, Keeper and Seeker have too much pressure, and beater involves hitting people, I'd rather fly around and score points.

Would you honestly eat the kidney pie?
....if it were made with kidney beans....

Dark mark or D.A. "Galleon"?
Neither - sign me up for the Order.

What magic power or inheritance would you want the most?
a phoenix

What magical creature was your favorite (ex. centaurs,house elves, etc.)?
Niffers

At the moment if you walked by the Room of Requirement what would it turn into?
library, with usable study aids, coffee, and fun games.

What would your boggart be?
Other people controlling what I do

What was your reaction to the Ron and Hermione "thing" in book 7?
I wasn't at all surprised, knew it was going to happen, just like Harry's defeating Voldermort. The interesting part was how it all came about.

If Thestrals were real could you see one (meaning have you seen someone die)?
really something I'm going to discuss over LJ

What would you see in the Mirror of Erised?
I have no idea

Are you brave like Harry, funny like Ron, or intelligent like Hermione?
I've got a healthy strip of know-it-all in me, but without the actual knowing.

Which of the Deathly Hollows would you choose (the cloak, the stone, or the wand)?
the wand.

Would you be a member of S.P.E.W.?
knowing me, I'd be a die hard member

Out of the Marauders Map, Sirius' dagger, and a Sneakoscope, what would you choose?
The Marauder's Map

What pet would you take with you to Hogwarts (toad, cat, owl, etc)?
Cat

Who was your favorite teacher at Hogwarts?
Professor Snape

What subject would you like to teach at Hogwarts?
Ancient Runes or Astronomy

What job would you like to have in the Wizarding World?
I want to work for the department of mysteries

Which character do you wish was real and you could befriend?
The Weasleys

Would you enter your name in the Triwizard Cup?
no, thanks

Which was the best movie so far?
HP 5 (although 3 was pretty good as well)

On a scale of 1-10 (ten being the worst) how depressed are you that the series is over?
4, I'm glad it's completed and we have the answers we were meant to have

Who do you want to marry or date?
Fred or George

50 Things you didn't want to know

1. What does your *lj nickname mean? Homage to my least favorite high school teacher; who used the phrase "Less then stellar" when describing my behavior often
2. What’s your heritage? Cherokee/German/Irish if the liars are to be believed
3. Where were you born? Arkansas
4. What’s your hair color? brown
5. What is life to you? Better Question: What is not life?
6. What is love to you? willingness to help another person fight their battles, even when the enemy is themself.
7. What do you hate most? feeling lost and alone
8. What do you love most? friends, family, and roller disco
9. What makes you happy? unscheduled  days and waking up early
10. What’s your best physical feature? my hair
11. What is your best quality? my sometimes AWOL wit, and my empathy
12. What feature do you first notice in the opposite sex? clothing chioces
13. What are you scared of? not being able to help
14. What’s your favorite color? gray
15. Do you like your job? yeah, tis satisfactory.
16. Do you wish on stars? not often
17. Are you sarcastic? ....no, not at all....
18. Do you curse? vehemently
19. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? charcol
20. Where do you want to be ideally? At the bank depositing a $9,000 dollar check
21. Are you the serious or loud or happy or shy type? awkward, funny, confident type
22. If you had three wishes, what would they be? 1) world peace 2) that I could be a bit smarter 3) Harry Potter 8
23. Who is the last person you talked to on the phone? My mother
24. Last Movie you watched? "King Arthur"
25. What song makes you cry? Valley of the Shadow by Thomas Newman
26. What’s the best feeling in the world? love
27. What’s the worst feeling? hopelessness
28. Have you been in a car accident?  no *knock on wood*
29. Have you had a song written about you? Probably... I've dated some pretty melodramatic boys who did that whole band/angst thing. the songs probably aren't very nice.
30. Have you ever skipped school? yes
31. Have you fell asleep in the shower? ...nooooo
32. Have you ever skinny dipped? YES! (Amanda, Jessie and I are notorious)
33. Have you ever drunk dialed? no... wait.. after I shaved my head I drank and called friends at the same time... so... maybe
34. Have you been bitten by a dog? god no.
35. Have you ever smoked/done drugs? a bit
36. Have you ever been on stage/in a play? a spillion times
37. Have you let a friend cry on your shoulder? of course
38. Do you believe in love at first sight? no. don't be stupid
39. What was the last thing you purchased? shredded cheese and garbage bags (necessities obviously)
40. What‘s on your CD player? British Sea Power
41. What turns you on? interesting conversation
42. Favorite fruit? plums
43. Favorite vegetable? yams
44. Favorite sport? soccer
45. Favorite food? Italian
46. Favorite drink? green tea
47. Favorite magazine? Vanity Fair and Nylon
48. Favorite flower? ones that are given to me
49. Favorite ice cream flavor? coffee oreo
50. Favorite Band, Group, Singer or Rapper? The Decemberists

Good things:
-It was rainy and beautiful all day today
-Mom and Jack came to visit me today and we grabbed some groceries (YAY for luna bars and fresh organic spinach) on our way around town
- Mom brought me my cute summer clothes & returned with my winter cloths so now I have more space in my apartment!!
- Jen made ice cream cake and it was delicious!
- I called Sarah today and the music that played instead of the ringer was "Can't touch this" I laughed my ass off in the middle of a crowded hallway
- French discussion tonight was amazing - I quoted Eddie Izzard and everyone got it.

Not so good things:
-Amanda's not fucking working at the front desk next year, and I am so disappointed! I really wanted to work with her!!
- Tom is ill. Uncool! I want to fix it, but since I didn't have the correct qualifications for "G-d" I didn't get the job and can't fix a damn thing.
-I'm exhausted and have a paper due tomorrow.
- School is over in two weeks, and I am so. not. looking. forward. to. it.

If I get anything done today I would really like it to be cleaning my apartment and getting one load of laundry done. That's what I'd really like.

But so far today all I've done is drool over new albums (Andrew Bird's Armchair Apocrypha, Arcade Fire's Neon Bible, and Bright Eye's Four Winds and Cassadaga). And I have absolutely no money to buy them. NONE. especially not considering all the birthday's that are upcoming and the awesomeness of the gifts that have been purchased. but, in all honesty, I'm much more excited to give gifts to people that I love then I would be to enjoy music that I'll obsess over for 2 weeks and then forget about. (see Iron and Wine's Sea and the Rhythm and Our Endless Numbered Days  that I don't ever listen to now). Also accomplished today; staring at my phone. Not actually doing anything with it.... just staring at it.

My journal will be mostly friends only from now on. Comment to be added.

I'm moving into the dorm on Monday and then I'll start my week long search-for-a-job fest, before my 20th birthday party, which I am very excited for, having recently applied the final touches to my costume. (yeah, I'm having a Harry Potter dress up birthday party. You *say* I'm a dork but I can tell by your eyes you wish you'd thought of the idea first) The fist place I'm going to look for employment is the Starbucks by Best Buy, because they are all so damn nice over there, and I really enjoy working the coffee house scene. But before all this fun stuff happens I am having minor surgery on Tuesday for some unresolved pain issues that they don't know what causes. *sigh* Why can't I just curl under some warm blankets with my Maire Antoinette book, some hot coco and my puppy?


I'm finding that the most difficult decision about moving out is which book to take. Am I *really* going to finish Pride and Prejudice and wouldn't I have more fun reading the bio of Betty Friedan? I've wanted to read A Passage to India forever, but I can't take both Passage to India and Howard's End, because I won't want to read both. And I really should bring Jane Eyre but I'd rather take Women in Love. Apart from books, the second most important thing is figuring out which seasons of The West Wing are mine, and which are my mothers. I have a particular fondness for season 1, (Who doesn't want, No REQUIRE, Bradley Whitford in scruffy post-party hang over-ness to cheer them up?) but I also have a feeling it belongs (rightfully) to my mother. I have decided to leave my pirate hat at home, but I am going to bring my stuffed elephant, and the yellow elephant blanket my brother got me for christmas. I'll just hide them under the bed or something.

With 20 some minutes left of the morning, I'm looking at my to-do list feeling a deep sense of non-interest. Having recently come into the possession of Marie Antoinette: Last Queen of France, all I really want to do is READ IT.

I'm thinking I should probably move into the apartment building the week before classes start, in order to get settled, find some form of employment, and mingle with the commoners. My mother has informed me that I will only be allowed to come home once a month, apparently she's concerned that I won't be as prominent on the social scene, but honestly, I think she's mentally linked the words "Social Scene" as a code word for grand children. I'm 19, and she's thinking about grand-kids. It's going to be a long decade.

So I'm going through old clothes, and figuring out which books I'm going to need on campus. I'm so ready to move out.... aren't I?

Because I'm starting at UW-L on the 22nd I've suddenly become extremely pensive and, if possible, more self conscious then before. I want to be liked, and I want to do well in my studies, and I want to possibly go through another semester of French without being terrified of the beautiful black woman who teaches it (To date all of my french classes have been taught by native speakers from Africa who are beautiful, black and have amazing fashion sense and vaginas coupled with perfectionists personalities they wish their students had, and if their students did not have said ideal personality these women forced it on them, by medieval methods if necessary.) Anyways, I'm really hoping that all goes well at UW-L, it's a bit daunting (like marriage), you THINK you want it, you THINK it's the perfect fit, but you've never tried it on, so is it?

So I'm spending my MONTH LONG (yes, it's amazing) winter break working at the coffee shop, studying french everyday for 3+ hours, watching M*A*S*H with my mother and little brother, and reading. Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, this is turning out to be the best winter break ever.

School's out today for all the little kiddies, so Jack and I have planned a day filled with movie watching, play stationing and cookie making to start our holiday fun.

And speaking of holiday fun, for those of you who keep up with these things you'll be pleased to know that the seventh Harry Potter book title has been released!!!!! I, personally, was hoping for Harry Potter and Your Mom, while my brother was expecting something more along the lines of Harry Potter and How His Real Mother Came Back to Life. ehhh.... fortunately, neither of these titles were chosen and the seventh potter book will be called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow. Not exactly what I was expecting or maybe even hoping for but I'm certain that the title will fit the content.

alright my massive dork-y-ness will now be shoved back into the recesses of my hidden personality where it belongs. :-)

I'm feeling kinda tired, and rather sad. Can't really put my finger on it, but I could give you a round about picture of lost love and forgotten unicorns. Or not.

I had a meeting with a lady who talked to me about k-12 teaching, we decided that really wasn't for me. First of all, you need to be passionate about kids, not just the subject, and you also need to be willing to relocate, and I'm not really wanting to do that. Anywhere further away then five hours and I'd have a fit. I've pretty much decided to major in english with a writing concentration, but I'm starting to feel a bit insecure about it. Writing. I don't know that I write all that well now. I was ahead of the game in high school but all the other kitties are done being stupid. *sigh* They keep on telling me I can add literature to my daily life in any number of ways and I don't need to major in it. This is when it starts I guess. They tell you that you can't make money doing something that you love, and instead of saying fuck off, and doing what you want knowing that everything will work out, you agree and do something you only kinda like. It's all down hill from here.

Today when I was driving to school a man came on NPR, he was discussing cancer with mid morning host Carrie Miller. A woman called in to talk about the other side of disease; the care giver. She told this story about how her father had alzheimer's about two years ago. She had to move him from his house to her house in order to better take care of him. And she said it got to the point where, one day, he sat down with her and told her that this wasn't a way he wanted to live. He looked her in the eyes and told her the he was going to starve himself. He was still mentally cognizant and he knew what he was talking about, and she said 'ok'. And I was struck by the heartbreaking respect she had for her father in his intimate personal decision not to live with the disease. And suddenly I was crying, right there on the intersection between McDonalds and Barns'n'Noble thinking about my parents, and Jessie's parents and Erik's parents. And I was overcome by the tenderness of a daughter's love for her father in that she would allow him to make the decision by himself, and not fight him. There are a lot of arguments against what happened, but that's the point, isn't it. HE still made the decision. And I thought it was beautiful and wanted to share it with you.

This week was good; really, really good.

On Tuesday, I went to Stranger then Fiction with Ryan and Caleb, that old youth group gang from when I was like fourteen. I hadn't seen these kids in years and they look great, they're doing great and they are still hilarious. Caleb took off back to school tonight, but he says he'll call over christmas break. And Ryan isn't working on Monday so we're going to get together. (By the way, Stranger then Fiction is AWESOME. Will Farrel can act, and Maggie Gyllenhaal is probably the prettiest woman on the face of the earth. "Do you like the cookies?" "Yes, thank you for forcing me to eat them." And Emma Thompson makes a hilarious psycho...albeit uncomfortably believable.)

Thanksgiving proved entertaining and amusing. However, my family did decide to hold hands before the thanksgiving meal and sing the "johnny appleseed" prayer, which, when I'm looking at all the people I love and it's thanksgiving, and... well, I got a bit choked up, but I believe I hid it well enough although my aunts probably think I was suffering from pre-thanksgiving indigestion.

Afterwards I stopped off to see Jessie and her large and strange family. While I absolutely adore her siblings, their spouses, and her parents, I found her extended relations to be amusingly disconcerting. As Jess, Nate and I sat around discussing the finer points of a nice pair of socks a drunk (well at least, I'm hoping) uncle forcefully interupts us to say, in all seriousness "Excuse me! Are you speaking a different language?"

Afterwards Nate introduced many of us to the game Pit, which is loosely based on the stock market and is about as boring a topless keg party with free alcohol (okok, not that exciting). PJ promptly informed me that the premise of the game was all based upon deceit, so, of course, I would be winning single handily. I disagreed with mock indigence... however, my indigence turned to sheepishness when I proceeded to win single handily.

Now that it's getting to be winter I am really missing the city. I miss walking to class in the bitter crisp air and looking at the bare tree limbs and all the interesting people everywhere. Being able to walk in a mass of people gives you a sense of anonymity that I could never find here.

I'm also finding that I'm missing the people I knew up there as well. I was listening to bright eyes yesterday and I found that I was missing Rachel terribly. Some days Rachel and I did not get along, and we merely tolerated each other of out habit, but today, I miss her, and I want her to come back from Rhode Island and drink with me.

She used to giggle over the silliest things. When Tim came over to help me with my ipod he was saying the dumbest stuff. "you could name it UofMButt if you wanted to!" and Rachel was laughing with that high pitched joyous laugh of her's, and suddenly the stupidest comment was hilarious.

I have this mental picture of her swaying back and forth when she straightened her hair, singing along to Bright Eyes, and telling me that my voice was beautiful.

I'm really missing Sarah too. And it's funny, I distinctly remember the day we became friends. She was in my french class and we hadn't talked much, and one day she just stopped by my dorm out of the blue and she had just run up the stairs and was winded and unkempt, and I remember thinking "Who is this kid, and why doesn't she go away?" I'm so very glad she didn't.

When it had snowed and the world was looking brand new with a cleansing white coat of paint we went out and started taking black and white photos of the trees with snow stacked an inch high on the branch and the lamp light that caught the snow flakes when they fell. It was the first time I had really stopped to enjoy the beauty of campus, and we had so much fun wandering about enjoying the snow.

Funny, how you wake up one morning and suddenly miss people terribly.

Kick boxing beat the shit out of me yesterday. The instructor said that we wouldn't be sore. riiiiiight. As I literally rolled out of bed this morning and made a mental note that she's a huge liar.

Yesterday could have been awesome, and ended up being pretty close to it. Ryan stood me up again! Wait, it's not as bad as it sounds. We were off to Stranger then Fiction and I called to find that he wasn't picking up his phone. Turns out he'd be called into work on his first day off in a week and had forgotten to call me.

My french lesson was also canceled and admittedly, I wasn't prepared for it, but it is nevertheless exciting to be yelled at in french by a boisterious american who spends all day sorting books. so I was a little sad

So I called up Erik and we played with my brother for a couple hours. It was nice to see him without Amanda. I like Amanda and all, but he's my friend first you know? I don't know, maybe I'm being selfish.

Rudy Giuliani is filing papers to set up an exploratory committee to see if he has a bid for the presidency. I am really excited, and pretty surprised to. I really don't know much about this man, but he's a republican, however, he was mayor of new york city so he must be a cool republican. I must learn more.

Plans for today:
1: finish American Government paper
2: write speech on why Benedict Arnold won the Revolution.
3: Go to Comedy at 6

LEVEL ONE:
-- Name: Connie
-- Birthdate: January 21st
-- Birthplace: Searcy AR
-- Current Location: Minnesota
-- Eye Color: Hazel
-- Hair Color: brown... soon to change
-- Height: 5'3''
-- Righty or Lefty: righty
-- Zodiac Sign: Aquarius.

LEVEL TWO
-- Your heritage: German, and Cherokee
-- The shoes you wore today: shoes? airwalks to run to work
-- Your weakness: feeling sorry for myself, and my play station
-- Your fears: being unhappy
-- Your perfect pizza: cheese, extra sauce, pinapple, green pepper, mushrooms.
-- Goal you'd like to achieve: I want to help, and I want some peace with god.

LEVEL THREE
-- Your most overused phrase: "OHHHOOOOHHH" *in an annoying singsong voice relaying smack down to another person*
-- Your thoughts first waking up: "What time did I need to leave the house so I won't be late?"
-- Your best physical feature: eyes
-- Your bedtime: I've been known to crawl into bed at 8:30, but usually I go to bed at 10
LEVEL FOUR
-- Pepsi or Coke: gross
-- McDonalds or Burger King: extremly gross
-- Single or group dates: Both
-- Adidas or Nike: I don't care
-- Lipton Iced Tea or Nestea: Lipton GREEN tea.
-- Chocolate or vanilla: vanilla
-- Cappuccino or coffee: coffee

LEVEL FIVE
-- Smoke: no only when i'm being stupid and decide that nothing else will calm me down
-- Cuss: more then I would like, but I'm working on it.
-- Sing: Often, esp when I am getting stressed out (you'd be amazed how less intense the world seems when you sing.... hey, don't look at me like I'm crazy!!)
-- Take a shower everyday: YES.
-- Have a crush(es): A little one.
-- Like college or university?: YES! OMFG where can I sign? Get me out of this two year college!!
-- Liked high school: It's so much better in retrospect
-- Want to get married: one uh these days
-- Believe in yourself: Yes, but somedays more then other
-- Get motion sickness: no
-- Think you're attractive: Sometimes.
-- Think you're a health freak: getting there
-- Get along with your parents: very much so
-- Like thunderstorms: no, not at all
-- Play an instrument: no. not anymore. My clarinet is still sitting on my bedroom floor and I refuse to sell it.


LEVEL SIX: In the past month...
-- Drank alcohol: yes
-- Smoked: yes
-- Made Out: no...damnit
-- Gone on a date: nope
-- Gone to the mall?: yes, I took my cousins!
-- Eaten an entire box of Oreos: omg, no!
-- Eaten sushi: *sigh* no
-- Been on stage: *sighsighsigh* no....
-- Been dumped: no
-- Made homemade cookies: I helped my brother make some this morning.
-- Gone skinny dipping: no
-- Dyed your hair: no... but soon!
-- Stolen anything: maybe a kiss

LEVEL SEVEN: Ever..
-- Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: Once. but I swear that Jessie pushed me off that couch...
-- Been caught "doing something": no.
-- Been called a tease: no
-- Gotten beaten up: Yes, but not the way your thinking. My informative speech grade kicked me in the face.
-- Changed who you were to fit in: No

LEVEL EIGHT
-- Age you hope to be married: who cares? maybe before I'm 30
-- Numbers and Names of Children: Aubrey John, and Jeanette Aredell Lee
-- Describe your dream wedding: One with lots of family and lots of friends and a white poofy dress.
-- How do you want to die: In the day time
-- Where you want to go to college/university?: University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and University of Michigan for grad school
-- What do you want to be when you grow up: a superhero
-- What city would you most like to visit: Venice

LEVEL NINE: In a guy/girl..
-- Best eye color? Please no more blue eyed men.
-- Best hair color? I like darker than lighter
-- Short or long hair: Do I care?
-- Height: What is this? Mail order significant other??
-- Best weight: it's a number that I do not care about
-- Best articles of clothing: As long as they don't have a star trek uniform in their closet it's cool
-- Best first date location: coffee shop, bookstore, theater
-- Best first kiss location: unexpected.

LEVEL TEN
-- Number of drugs taken illegally: Not none
-- Number of people I could trust with my life: Lots of people.
-- Number of CDs: over a hundred
-- Number of piercings: 2.
-- Number of tattoos: none.
-- Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper?: Lots for plays and cross country and track and the honor roll ect.ect.
-- Number of scars on my body: one noticeable one.
-- Number of things in my past that I regret: I've learned from everything so I don't regret it per se

Yesterday I played the cool older relation and took my 15 year old cousin Emily, and her (extremly cool) friend Rachel to a couple bookstores in LaCrosse and then to the Mall. Our main motive was Barnes'n'Noble, which, through the good will of the gods happens to be moving across the street to a larger more spacious building so almost ALL of their stock is on sale almost 90%. RAWK! Just to let you know, if you are on my christmas list you are getting a book.

My American Government class (yes, yes, that one I complained and complained about) is the coolest thing in the whole fucking world. Once again I've found a teacher whom I love and respect and admire. She's been everywhere, she attended Georgetown and worked for the BBC, she's been on Air Force One and will talk foregin policy for a half an hour even though we are suppose to be talking about the difference in the major parties. She didn't look at me like I was crazy when I confided in her that I am looking to go to Law School (most teachers get this giggle behind their eyes thinking "you are in technical college, go into management and shut the fuck up") In fact, she gave me really good advice and pointed me in the right direction.

I turned in my application to UW-L yesterday in person. I met a lady and when I asked the right questions she cheerfully gave me the right information. I'm setting up appointments with the pre-law guy and we're going to talk, I've made good impressions this far there is no reason why I shouldn't keep meeting people who like me and think I should go to their school.

Some unfun things that happened this week? Today, Mom ran over a frog with the mower and cut his leg off. He wasn't dying, just wiggling around in pain. Mom couldn't do it, so I took a shovel and finished it so he wouldn't be in pain anymore. I've never killed anything before today.

I hung out with Casey yesterday but I think he was intimadated by everyone and he wasn't much fun, which was disappointing.