Friday, April 30, 2004
see you on the other side
While the majority of the seniors seem to be nostalgic for all the days past when they think about leaving high school, I'm personally looking forward all the way. But in case I do get the urge to reminisce later, let me make a list to serve as a reminder to why it's good to be moving on.
Things I won't miss:
1. Cafeteria food. When you get served the exact same cardboard-crust pizza once a week for seven years of your life (12, if you include grades 1-5), you tend to get sick of it. At least, I did, about a year ago. And don't even get me started on the nachos they serve every Thursday; I wasn't a fan of nachos even before I was subjected to them on a weekly basis.
2. The people who sit next to me in computer classes and listen to crappy music. Extra points against them if they sing along with the music and/or listen to country. Somewhere along the line, the teachers stopped telling them to turn it off, and it leaves people like me fighting back the urge to tell them to shut the hell up and turn that crap off.
3. Jocks. For some reason, they've caught my attention this year more than most, and I've realized that, on the whole, I can't stand 'em. Some of them as individuals are just fine, but I choose to avoid them when they're in large groups....How it is genetically possible for someone to be so full of themselves is beyond me.
4. The "cool" people. Now, I'm not trying to be all anti-popular or any of that; there are a few that are rightfully considered cool. But most of them aren't. Actually, I guess I should be more specific and say, "snobs." I can't stand snobs. I think the only people who really can stand snobs are 1) other snobs, and possibly 2) their own families. Though I'm not sure on that last one.
I'm sure that throughout my entire life I'll be subjected to bad food, bad music, morons, and mean people. So being confined to the same building where all four of these things co-exist doesn't sound like something worth missing to me. Granted, there will be some things I miss, but right now I can't think of that many. I guess I'll let you know when that big mean scary world out there comes and gets me.
I'm waiting here impatiently, world...
Posted by Rachel at 12:01 PM |
Fine, I'll admit it. I'm a template whore. But I just can't help myself. No matter how much I like a certain layout, I eventually get bored with it and have to put up something new. Sad, but making changes to my site has become somewhat of a favorite pastime of mine. Pathetic, I know, but hey, maybe it keeps the people coming back. Aren't you all just so excited to see what designs I'll come up with next?
What? You're not? Oh. Okay.
Posted by Rachel at 10:52 AM |
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
still recovering...
I talked to Paul online last Sunday for an hour or so. I miss Paul. He's planning on coming up to MI in one weekend in June and he wants to see everyone. I told him that we should get someone to have a party (like old times...heh). He also mentioned that I should come down to Georgia sometime, to see the sights etc. I'd like to go after graduation, if it'd work out. But it's too soon to make any plans.
In other news, I'm still feeling the after-effects of my...illness. My stomach stopped hurting so much after I finally ate something, but I'm still feeling weary.
I've still got to get gloves and hair stuff for prom. Hopefully I'll be able to this weekend. I still have no idea how prom day is going to work out....but I've got other things to stress over at the moment. Curse college.
Posted by Rachel at 1:13 PM |
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Beware the McChicken. I think it had to do with my being sick yesterday. I had one late Sunday night and then when I woke up Monday morning I was sick...I'll spare you the details of how I threw up twice and almost passed out, too weak to stand up....I'm feeling better now though despite a bit of lingering weakness.
It's really too bad, I was starting to really like McChickens. Now I'm going to avoid them again.
Posted by Rachel at 11:50 AM |
Thursday, April 22, 2004
I miss my roller skates. I want to go skating. And I miss my Easter lilies, I want to smell them.
I miss things being uncomplicated.
Posted by Rachel at 1:01 PM |
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Prom dress for sale...
THEY STILL HAVE THE OTHER DRESS!!! IwantitIwantitIwantit....My stepmom would shoot me if I bought yet another dress for prom, but the one I have doesn't look that good on me....
The other dress
'Buy It Now" for $59,
and they take money orders....I'm SO tempted to make a trip to the bank.
UPDATE
I got it. Now, what to tell the stepmomma...
Posted by Rachel at 2:22 PM |
After a couple sleepless nights and some more stressing out about college, I may or may not have stumbled across what I want to do with my life. And it was quite coincidental (...or was it?). I got this brochure in the mail the other day from Columbia College Chicago - it's an art school on Michigan Avenue, right in the middle of the city (according to them). Yesterday I read through it; it detailed their summer programs, and one was about fashion design. It was then that this little idea started blossoming in my head: why don't
I go into fashion design? I wanted to, when I was younger (of course, I'm also the one who made a book at one point in my youth stating that one of my top 3 career aspirations was being a cashier) - I used to draw designs of these really...interesting...dresses and write what colors they'd come in. I'd like to hope though that my fashion sense has developed in a more positive direction since then...
If I did go into fashion design, then all my struggling to go to Oberlin will have been in vain - they don't offer any classes of the sort. But you know, I almost think I'd have more fun at an art school anyway.
The same day I got my Columbia College brochure, I got a letter from SVSU detailing my scholarship. It's looking more and more like that's where I'll end up for my first year or two. But hey, free tuition AND they buy all my books? Maybe then my parents will pay for my dorm.
If it does happen that I go to SVSU, then (after a year or two), art school, here I come.
Posted by Rachel at 10:51 AM |
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
"...I have honored your request for silence, and you've washed your hands clean of this..."
Spring Break, Take One.
Action.: I had a dentist appointment to have my teeth cleaned now that my braces are finally gone. No cavities for me, woo! I found some of that previously-mentioned cotton candy bubble gum at a gas station, and I got some gummy bears in my Easter basket. I'm indulging while I can, because I don't know what kind of limitations there will be when I get my retainers tomorrow.
Cut!
Spring Break, Take Two.
Action.: I'm at my mom's for this first half of Spring break (until tomorrow). She didn't have to work Good Friday, so I spent the day with her and she took me to see "Passions of the Christ" in Flint (she saw the movie before and wanted me to see it). "See what He did for you??" she said to me, as we were leaving. It
is a movie that makes you think...or at least makes the people that believe in Christ think. I haven't spent much time with my mom though, since then, and I go back to my dad's tonight. I guess I feel a little bad, but she has her own life too.
Cut!
Spring Break, Take Three.
Action.:My brother has been having car trouble like no other lately. The latest is that his newer car needs a new motor, and he was able to find one cheap but still couldnt afford it. So Saturday morning bright and early we robbed the Firstbank - I mean, we stopped at the bank and I took out some money for him (since I have nothing to spend my money on [i.e., a car] I have a good amount saved up). Now it's paid for, and he's hoping to have his car back tonight or tomorrow night, good as new...
Cut!
Spring Break, Take Four.
Action.: The one person I've been spending most of Spring Break with so far is Kurtis. I don't know if it's good for two people to see so much of eachother, but he doesn't seem to be complaining and neither am I. Yesterday we spent the entire day together - we wanted to go on a road trip, but our lack of money (and energy, in the end) set some limitations. I won't go into full detail, but here are the highlights: I found a pair of $3 rollerskates at a thrift shop in Saginaw that were my size, and Kurtis bought them for me. I treated him to lunch at this quaint little Hut Hamburger restaurant in old-town then we hit the comic-book store. Heading back through STC we stopped at the green house and Kurtis bought me some Easter lilies (I absolutely love Easter lilies). We went to the Flint mall and I bought some laces for my skates and showed Kurtis the Blue Moon store. Kurtis got some freeway experience going to East Lansing, and despite a slight error in directions, we made it to the Meridian Mall. The long day was beginning to take its toll on us by then, but we left there with all of our money spent. Once back to town I didn't want to go home so we went to see Curwood Castle in the dark. I tried out my new skates on the sidewalk.
....and, cut!
That's a wrap.
Posted by Rachel at 1:45 PM |
Thursday, April 08, 2004
A Pointless Post
Woo, the braces are finally gone. After two and a half years, I no longer have a mouth filled with metal. That's right, no more "railroad tracks" comments for me....not that I got many comments like that anyway.
Retainers come next week...not looking forward to that. I'm gonna have a lisp for the next 4 months...
Jeffy contributed $0.50 to the Rachel Needs Bubblegum Fund (I've missed gum...) and I bought a pack of Bubblicious Watermelon yesterday. Do they still make that cotton candy flavored bubble gum? That was the best...
I also finally picked up a copy of Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" album the other day. And the radio station 104.9 had her on there yesterday morning, and she did an acoustic version of "Hands Clean." I really liked it a lot. I wonder if it'll be on Soulseek...I'll probably end up buying a copy of "Under Rug Swept" now.
Yesterday a few select elite members of the drama club play cast went to goodwill and got costumes. Kurtis ended up coming with us at the last minute, which made the trip much more entertaining for me, anyway. And we all have costumes now for all the scenes, if I'm not mistaken. Except maybe the conductor. I don't know.
Posted by Rachel at 9:44 AM |
Monday, April 05, 2004
Dance Friday night. I went to this one, and forced Jeffy to go too. Mua ha ha.
Saturday morning I woke up with a sore neck and back, and my throat was hoarse from screaming lyrics to songs that the DJ never played. And, while rearranging the (much heavier than I thought) blankets on my bed, my hand slipped and I stabbed myself near the eye with my fingernail. Now I have a little cut there, but if anyone asks, I'll say "knife fight" because Kurtis thinks I should.
My day did get better from there, thank God.
Posted by Rachel at 10:45 AM |
Friday, April 02, 2004
A new template is in the works. Prepare to be amazed (or appalled at my beginner skills with Photoshop).
Posted by Rachel at 10:54 AM |
