Today, I

Ran 3 miles in 20 minutes.
Played music at church I'd never played before.
Bought a really cute two piece swimsuit.
Stocked up on underwear.
Found a nice summer evening cover up shirt that was on sale -- twice.
Laughed with one of my best friends.
Smiled about my awesome boyfriend's cute new haircut.
Brushed a three-year-old's teeth and sang for her.
Solved a trigonometry question that was made by a 10 year old.
Planted my face in a plate of chicken salad.
Let my hair fly around in the wind while I drove with the windows down.
Listened to the sound of a train whistle as I got ready for bed.

If I weren't saving my $...

I really like these shirts!! Threadless shirts are so cool, thanks Emma for introducing me to them.

captive

PRISONER'S LOG
21:22 23 MAY 2009

Day 5 of my captivity has ended in blissful liberty. Project "History Paper" is complete. Mission "Kill Myself Reading A Redundant Waste of Adjectives 24/7" is terminated. Prisoner's log ends here. Over.

The past 5 days have been spent reading this book for history and writing a paper on it that's due Tuesday. The deadline really snuck up on me. If I hadn't come down with this cold thing I don't think I would've gotten it done in time (talk about divine intervention)!!

Emily Last Week: "Hmm, what do I have to do for History today?"
Paper Deadline: "Peek a Boo!"
Emily: "@#$%^&"
God: "What seems to be the problem?"
Emily: "HALLLP!!!!!!11!!"
God: "Sigh. I should collect interest for these favors..." [flash of lightning] "Have some Swine Flu."
Emily: [cough hack sneeze] "Is it really Swine Flu?"
God: "Well, it's that or something eerily similar. I don't know, I just kind of made it up as I went. You're welcome!"
Emily: [rraaaassssp.]

The book was actually pretty interesting. It really provided an insider's look on the American Revolution and made the Founding Fathers seem like actual human beings who had personality quirks and made mistakes. It was intriguing. Borderline epic, actually. I think Madison and Washington are my favotites.

Kyle and I made crepes the other morning! They were delectable. It took a few tries to flip them without making them look like deformed noodles though.

Going to the Folklife Festive with Lauren, Kayley, and Emma on Monday!! I want to see the guy who lays on the bed of nails again...

Well I'd write more but I can't stand to look at a computer screen any long--

Joy Division

Today was weird. I screwed up on a lot of things (I'm not going to bother with details), and there were a lot of awkward social moments, and quite a few things just generally went wrong...but I somehow managed to be in a spectacular mood nonetheless. And I'm going to bed feeling satisfied and at peace with the world. Hmm. This seems so backwards! Yet I don't care.

Maybe it was that the day was beautiful, or that I have so many good things to look forward to.
Maybe it's that I've finally become able to accept my faults and still recognize my successes, and that forgiving myself is becoming less difficult than it used to be.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
We played with worms in Marine Science today. I could be suffering through Chemistry, but instead I'm playing with worms :-D Actually it was quite fascinating. Those earthworms are powerful little suckers. And it seemed to have its own little personality after awhile. I called mine Spunky. Then we dissected different worms. Apparently earthworms have their hearts...and their testicles... in heads...but no brains.

I got this book, Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things. I gave it to Savannah for her birthday :-) it's AWESOME. Hours of fun with science. I made plastic out of milk and vinegar with Kyle. I want to try building a radio next.

"Let's dance to joy division
And celebrate the irony
Everything is going wrong
But we're so happy!"
-The Wombats

Catching Up

Well, I haven't blogged in a really long time.

The trip to CA was really eventful, we packed a lot of activities into 5 days. Like trying to pack a sock full of a sleeping bag. Or a suitcase full of one girl's clothes and three girls' toiletry supplies. Which we also tried.

It was great to see family. It's rare that all the closest members of my family are in the same building, let alone the same state. Being in my grandparents' house and talking with my great grandmother, who is 94, created this intense sense of nostalgia and actually brought me to tears. Sarah too. It's weird...we were looking at all these old pictures and then talking to the people who were in those pictures...and I could see the younger person inside of this person in front of me. It was eerie.

We also got to see a bunch of friends, which was SO NICE. But in a way it was pretty much a tease since it was for like, 3 hours. Sigh. I could've spent weeks down there.

San Diego was pretty awesome. I think friendly people follow the sun. There were like 3 instances we had with really nice strangers. Old Town San Diego was cool and had the best tortillas...strawberry and chocolate...oh man. And Little Italy had EXCELLENT food. The kissing statue was HUGE.

At the San Diego Zoo my mom insisted on buying me a 2nd pair of sunglasses because I had left my pair in the hotel room.
"Mom, I already have a pair."
"That's ok, you need a pair today."
"Hahaha watch me break them."
So I took a long time to pick out some good ones in one of the gift shops and wore them the whole day. Then I got back to the hotel room, dropped my room key, bent down to pick it up, watched as the glasses slid off my face, tripped, and stepped on the glasses and broke them.

Sigh.

The zoo was really cool though. We heard lions roar. That was amazing; the sound just resonates like nothing you could imagine.
The Greatest Rock Band Ever would figure out a way to plug a lion into an amp and just blast it as the opening to their concerts. People would go home deaf. It would be epic.

Saw the Star Trek movie today! Kyle brought his lightsaber XD we waved it around and got a lady to tell us, "No, that's the wrong movie..." hahaha. Then we explained how the entire Star Trek series was actually just an extension of Star Wars. Luke Skywalker is actually James T. Kirk and Spock, of course, is actually Chewbacca.

To Do: Learn the rules to Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock

I want to go to school and get int the middle of a huge crowd during passing period and have a coughing fit and then say (really loud), "Sorry man, this Swine Flu is just killing me" and see what happens.

Well, I have to get up early tomorrow once again. Don't forget to tell your mother happy her day tomorrow.