Sam’s Awesome, Guys Are Not

I’m so glad that this quarter is almost over. I’m ready for a break. That said, I’m not sure what I’m going to do without school. I like having something to do, even if I end up hating it, or I fail at it haha.

The highlight of my day (the good highlight anyway) was Sam biting the deliveryman this morning. I was leaving the house, and had JUST opened the front door, and the deliveryman was right there at the front step. I was freaked out, naturally, and I’m sure I looked scared out of my wits. We both started laughing, and I was like, Sorry, I wasn’t expecting you! Sam, sensing my distress, came charging out of the house and bit him on the arm . I felt bad for the guy, cause Sam is so big, but I was really proud of him for flying out and “defending” me like that. The guy was fine, Sam only nipped him, but it was still awesome! And it’s good the guy wasn’t injured at all, or that would’ve been really bad. So! I gave Sam a medal when I game home, lol. My friend from my POLS class randomly brought a medal she didn’t want anymore to class with her, and offered it up to our group. So I took it, cause it was perfect!

Here’s a picture of Sam with his medal!

The day went downhill from there. I’m pretty sure I did badly on my final for POLS, which we had today. I finished a little later than everyone else, but still before class was officially out, so I had a bunch of extra time to kill before my second class. I went to the cafeteria to wait for my class to start, and scanned through the textbook we had a test on in my next class. I then got to experience the joy of complete idiots at the table next to me, who were talking about the ‘bromance’ they had with their roommate. One of them then shouted “bitch you’re gay, come talk some gay shit with me” and when I gave no response since I was apparently involved in my book, he shouted “I need to talk some gay shit with a gay man”. I gave no response and they laughed and went outside. They were back within a few minutes so I left, cause I didn’t want to deal with them.

I managed to pass my econ quiz because the whole class managed to convince our teacher to make it a group quiz.

On the way home I almost ran over a cat.

I then had to go back out to meet with my idiot of a culminating project advisor, who didn’t have a clue about anything I asked him via email.

Aaaand on top of all of this I’ve felt horribly bloated and uncomfortable for the past few days, and for some reason my legs are both really sore like I’ve gone running. Which I definitely haven’t. I’m glad that the quarter is almost over; I need a break from life.

Oh! And I almost forgot! My mom wants to move because we can’t afford our house and all of its expenses. The furnace has broken, so we have to heat the house with the fireplace, which is twice as expensive. The water pipe to the house is so rusted we can’t repair the pipe to the sprinkler system, which is leaky. The front and back door need to be replaced, and there is little to no insulation in the house. We’re not even completely unpacked yet. I don’t want to move, but at the same time I’ll only be here a few more years, and this house has so many expenses. Oh! And there’s dry rot in my sisters bedroom wall. Like, the whole wall. I don’t know how we could get away with selling it, with all these expenses.

I just need to go to sleep. Hopefully I’ll feel better about my circumstances tomorrow.

Quick Recap Since I’ve Been Gone

God, it’s been ages since I signed on here. My brain is refusing to work properly at the moment, with a mid term worth 25% of my grade this Friday, and a map test to accompany it 2 hours later. I’ve also got a mid term on Monday, and an essay due Monday. I’ve technically finished the essay but it needs rewriting, because I’ve somehow managed to get 50/50 on the last two essays we’ve had, and now my teacher expects me to continue this streak. Oh! And I have homework due Friday I’ve yet to finish. My last mid term is on the 31^st, so I’ve got a bit of time yet to study for that. These classes don’t have much in the way of workload; it’s just all the reading and such that needs keeping up with. For the midterm I have on Friday I’ve done 6 pages of notes each for chapters 1 and 2. I’ve yet to even read chapter 3. Yes, I have had since the beginning of the quarter to read this. What’s your point?

I’ve got a couple people I was friends with years and years ago in this class, and we’ve all reconnected. I don’t expect I’ll stay in touch with any of them after the class is over, but I enjoy having people to sit with in class and in between classes. I did make a new friend who’s ‘a less hot version of me’ though. I’m only quoting Mean Girls; don’t take me seriously. I think he’s pretty cute actually. And I find him more and more like me every time we talk. It’s kind of ridiculous. I doubt we’ll stay friends after this class either though. But then again, he did friend M on facebook because he saw me talking to her during class on my mac. Which would imply he wants to stay friends. Or he just found that weirdly angled picture of her attractive. It’s sadly more likely to be the later of the two of those. Which is a shame, because he can’t keep up with me most of the time we’re talking, and M is basically me with women genitalia. A little bossier actually. And she finds him slightly creepy… it’ll be an adventure!

In other news, my sister is driving me nuts. My dad is suing for custody of her and has been pushing the idea that my mom brainwashed her. He’s completely messing with her mind. She KNOWS better, because I read through the paperwork (and found out he took out a $255,000 loan for his girlfriend’s duplex) with her right next to me. He stated in the documents that if my sister stays with my mom her mental health would be affected. Like, really? You’re going to say that and then try to “brainwash” her into thinking that our mom has been brainwashing us? He drives me nuts. He is honestly my least favorite person in the world. I wouldn’t say I hate him (I don’t know that I hate anyone) but I can’t stand being around him for more than a few hours. And every time he talks he makes himself sound more stupid.

So, my sister is staying down there, but she doesn’t want him to have full custody of her. Which means it’s going to cost my mom a fortune in legal fees. I’m hoping that she does what she should’ve done for a while now and upped the child support and requests that he pay for all the orthodontics, doctors, insurance, and all the other bills he’s never paid for. I’m furious in regards to the fact that he took out this giant loan for his girl friend, but claims not to have enough money to send me to Europe for the summer. Really? You can’t spare $8,000 from the massive $255K loan (that’s larger than the loan my mom took out for our HOUSE) to send your own son on a life-enriching journey across Europe? That would’ve looked awesome on college applications. But no. He couldn’t afford that. And I know that makes me sound really spoiled, but he can easily afford it, and with what I’ve had to put up with from him, I think I deserve it. Oh, and he’s telling my sister that my mom made him buy that duplex for his girlfriend. MY MOM made him do it. And the courts are making him sue for my sister. Like, does he even think before he speaks, or does he just spew shit from his mouth completely unhindered? Actually, he does that when he thinks anyway, so that’s not saying much.

He’s just so irritating! And I’m sorry, but my sister is stupid for staying down there. I told her it was a bad idea to go, but I phrased how I said it so it didn’t sound so bad. I’ve stopped censoring. It’s completely stupid of her to continue to stay there. She’s got hives again. And she cries every time she calls my mom. What’s the point of staying down there? I don’t get it! He’s treating her poorly without even realizing it or caring (cause sometimes she’ll tell him he’s hurting her and he hasn’t stopped yet) but she continues to stay under the delusion that he’ll change. Ugggh.

Ok, I should probably go now. All that homework has yet to be finished! I really should print off the map and look at it. I’m reaaaaly hungry all of the sudden too. Ugh, my life is so difficult. Oh, did I mention I’ve been sick since last Friday? I started loosing my voice this morning, and it’s gotten to the point where the only way I can talk is by shouting in a relatively deep voice. It’s pretty annoying.

I feel like I haven’t had time to talk to anyone lately. I’ve been so busy all week with this stupid mid term. I haven’t even started studying for the mid term that’s on Monday. I should probably do that soon…

Anyway! I’m going to go eat something now… thanks for listening to my rant!

Never Let Me Hear That Song Again Please

I handed in the inter-district transfer forms today. technically my sister and I are supposed to go to the other school on Thursday but because we’ve got the application process going, we don’t have to worry about it, supposedly. I dunno. It’s all rather stupid. We should know if we’re allowed to stay at our current school within the next 10 days.

Classes were dull today. I spent most of math designing my dream home. It’s going to be kind of large. I love secret passageways and hidden rooms, so it’s got to be big. Oh no! I forgot the library! I’ll have to make a note of that and design it tomorrow. Tee hee. History was only slightly more interesting. We got to learn the Charleston. Well, we learned the basics of it. But since it’s high school and there was no music, no one was interested in actually doing the dance. You have to be flamboyant and zealous when you do it. People did the steps for a few seconds and then stopped. Ugh. We looked over our project grades from last week. I told a little white lie by telling my teacher I’d done a part of the project I’d only attempted. He looked a little confused for a minute but gave me full credit for it anyway. The perks of being a “good” student. My grades going to be low in that class though because I only did a C project. And we already have an in class essay due tomorrow. Ugh. Sometimes I really don’t like that class. What’s worse is that I didn’t do much of any work for the project, so I don’t actually know too much about the 1920’s which is what the essay is on. I’m going to have to pull another two pages out of my hat tomorrow. Awesome.

Botany was really fun. I went home in between schools to eat, knit, and watch an episode of Ugly Betty. I meant to do my homework and sign up for the ACT, but somehow my priority list got lost… Anyway, in Botany today we talked about our field trip. Lol. Get it. Botany, the study of plants. FIELD trip. Yeah, I’m a nerd. Anyway, it turns out that we’ll be going to the arboretum in Bellevue, and then the other Botany class is going to tour the green houses in the UW. I was hyper almost immediately and babbled on and on about what I’d seen there to the girl who sits at my table for like ten minutes. I’m going to try and drag R along with me, if she responds to my text’s that is.

Class got out early, so I went to pottery early. Which was fun. The guy I sit next to has a slight crush on the girl he sits next to. Everyone at my table and the table next to me are girls, except for the guy obviously. We all just titter away about him. Most of the time he doesn’t have a clue what we’re saying. That girl though. A super random guy was hitting on her today. Never seen him before. I don’t know if she knew. We all just looked at each other and were like omg. And then another guy in class was extra nice to only her. I was just like, this girl is cluelessly working the room right now. She’s funny. Towards the end of class she kept looking over at me like, I need to leave now, because the guy who sits next to us was getting on her nerves. The four of us who are normally there left at the same time (even though it was an hour before class got out) and we all ended up talking out in the hall for a bit. Unfortunately for her she and the guy parked close to each other, so they had to walk alone. She looked at me like omg. I was like, ok, time to go now, because we were all standing there for a while. Lol. It’s a lovely little drama that makes pottery more interesting. They’re both really nice people though. I mean, it’s not like the guy is super weird or the girl is an oober slut.

I was home early, which meant I had time to nap. I don’t know why but I was really tired when I got home. I lay down on the floor upstairs with the dogs and fell asleep. Somehow I ended up on my bed. Unfortunately the pant legs of my jeans were wet from walking in the rain, so I was freezing. I went downstairs and had a nice warm cup of chicken and rice for dinner while sitting in front of the fire. We watch the newer Next Karate Kid and then all went to bed. Unfortunately Never Say Never is now stuck in my head. Urgh.

Boy Crazed In Botany

I’m sorry, I know I should read and reply to your comments but I’m just too tired at the moment and its 11:20. And I was just lying with Sam for the last half hour. He wanted to snuggle, which he never does. I almost fell asleep all curled up with him but he started moving around which was my queue to get up. So I’m going to write this nonsense out quickly so I can get back to being a curled up blob of relaxation.
I feel like I’m having a boy craze thing at the moment or something. Everyone today looked twice as cute as usual, which was really annoying. I can’t focus on my reading when (someone who appeared to be) River Viiperi’s older more rugged brother is sitting only a few tables away. He looked like he could’ve been. He also looked like he should’ve had a baby near him somewhere. Like, if he was a new dad it would’ve made him even more attractive. And then there was albino man, who was pale everywhere, including his lips and eyes, but actually looked good. And the two men from Africa who were as dark as my key board, with wash board abs. And they had accents. There were the cutest twins I’ve ever seen in Pottery today. One of them is in a different class, and his brother was just waiting for him. They were both complete ass holes though. If they hadn’t opened their mouths, they would’ve been perfect. I felt they needed to leave within a few minutes of my getting there. They were absolute douches. *makes a noise somewhere between “ugh” and “yuck”*

Botany was easy. We looked at about 8 different plants and tried to categorize them by what we thought their reproductive habits were. It was ridiculously simple. Really? You’re asking me how a strawberry reproduces? The sad part? People actually didn’t know… My group and I flew through it. I knew all of the plants we saw. My teacher showed us an iris start, but called it an Amyrillis. I asked her about it after she’d finished presenting (because I wasn’t paying attention too much since she was only saying basic instructions). I just said that I was pretty sure that the start she’d shown us was an iris and not an amaryllis. She said she wasn’t sure because they weren’t actually her plant samples, but that the amaryllis and iris look pretty similar when they’re starting out. Which they don’t at all. The amaryllis is a giant bulb. Iris are long rhizomes with leaves at the ends and roots periodically on the bottom. Very different. I just said ok and asked if it mattered whether we said iris or amyrillis. She said no so I went back to the group that had accumulated around the iris start and clarified for them. “she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. It’s an iris.” Only my group member’s listened to me of course, but oh well. It was an iris. If I’d had my text book I could’ve shown them.

Other plants included garlic, grape hyacinth, a pot full of various succulents, and a fern. We had to go outside and categories two plants (we chose grass and Ivy) and one of my group members was surprised at my level of knowledge of Ivy. It’s Ivy. It sends out runners/vines and takes over everything. Not that complex to figure out. He was hung-over and probably a little stoned though. He made class really fun. He said a bunch of random things that were hilarious. Oh and I have an A- in that class! She handed back some work to us today and said she’d written our current grade on the back. Crap! I just realized I forgot to summerize the news article! Which is due tomorrow! Eiike!

Ok, time for bed now. Oh, I didn’t get the blue gloves to my old teacher because she wasn’t there in the morning, or rather she was but wouldn’t let us in, (even though she swore she was almost always available before school during freshman year). There was something else… oh. My sister threw her back out again. She threw up three times today at school today, and came home early yesterday (couldn’t remember if I’d mentioned that). Yesterday she went to the doctor who told her she was fine and nothing was wrong. Which is clearly a bunch of crap. She’s going to physical therapy tomorrow at 8 am before school.

Ok, I’m pretty sure that’s all now. I feel like I’m forgetting something but oh well.

College Is Awesome, And Freaking Me Out

I don’t think I can go back to high school again. I’m too far into college life now to be able to handle suffering through the hells of high schools hallways. People are so much nicer in college. Like SO much nicer. I went back to high school after college to do some math stuff, and I was barely there five minutes when a fight almost broke out. Guys are such idiots. They really irritate me sometimes.

I didn’t really tell you all what happened yesterday. It was actually really fun. I laughed constantly in Botany. We are definitely the loudest group, and certainly the ones that have the most fun. Everyone else is quiet and boring, and they were all finished with the lab half an hour before class got out. My group slowed way down in productivity when it became apparent that “that’s what she said” was applicable when it came to the size and shape of the stems we were looking at. And the hairiness of them. I also told them about the dream I had which involved a bunch of worms coming out of one of the pots next to my bed, and then a disgustingly large one (about as big as my leg) that tried to come out of the pot and eat me. It was large, slippery, and pink. Lol. In pottery I threw the tallest thing I’ve ever (I was throwing for about 5 hours) made multiple times. And after getting this spiral of clay up to over a foot in height and successfully bringing it back down again, I managed to ruin the pot I tried to build. I tried lifting it too much. I need to work on that. But I did make one thing that was kind of cool, so I’ll be working on that on Tuesday.

Now that I’ve done that little summary, here’s what happened today. My mom has been planning to let me use the car today all week so I would’ve gotten to use the car even if she wasn’t sick and had stayed home. I drove my sister and I to school, then left right after a group test in math. Because it was a late start, I only got to the college half an hour before I would’ve on a normal day. It was nice being able to get there early and get my work done though. I couldn’t find A, and she wasn’t responding to my texts, so I sat with S, a girl I’ve known for a while but never really gotten to know (she was in my bio class last year and ended up being our student rep for the last half of the year), and K, whose group I was in freshman year. I still wonder why I was ever in that group though. I had nothing in common with any of those people. C was the only one I ever talked to. *shakes head* I’m a weird person. None of them even liked me lol. But anyways, I sat with S and K, and started some botany work that I hadn’t finished last night.

This really, and when I say really I mean REALLY, cute guy sat down with us a few minutes later. He knows K, which isn’t really surprising because she always has hot guy friends. He was kind of distracting at first to be honest. And then after glancing at him a few times, I realized just how amazingly gorgeous his and S’s babies would be if they had kids. S is really pretty and has great skin complexion and a good body type, and he fit the definition of tall dark and handsome to a T (he’s Uruguayan but looks Persian). If he had been if the slightest bit more built, there would’ve been chaos. Not kidding. My friend B, who was going to get a ride home from S, came and sat down with us. I love B. She’s big, black, and not afraid to say what she thinks. She’s hilarious. She looked at the guy, whose name I never heard, and was like “you are really sexy”. He just smiled and said thanks, but everyone else was laughing. I could not stop. I couldn’t believe she really just said that, especially since he was 21 and everyone else at the table was 16.

Between laughs I was like, omg B I love you. She was like, What, he’s sittin’ over there lookin’ all sexy and shit, typin’ away on his keyboard. Which he was. He then had a very in depth conversation with S about whether she should date a certain guy she liked, or a different guy who she liked better. It was like, ok really, he cannot be that good looking and sit here and give a 16 year old relationship advice. I was really tempted to just tell the two of them to go find a room just so they could make a baby. I’m not kidding, that child would be god-like. It irritates me when people with amazing genes don’t join up for the sake of passing them on. If I looked like that, that’s what I’d do.

All at once everyone had to leave for some reason or other, leaving me alone with this guy. He was like, you just got ditched bud, how’d that happen. I was like, I dunno, apparently they don’t really like me. He said he was in the same boat. I just sort of laughed and then put my nose in a book. What was I supposed to talk to him about? He was straight and wanted to be an engineer, I’m a queer who wants to be a pioneer. Yes, I really just said that. lol. But seriously. I just sat there and finished my hw, and then after about half an hour got up to leave. While I was putting my stuff away he mouthed the question “is she cute?” and indicated the girl who had sat next to him ten minutes ago. I made an Eh face, did an iffy shrug and got up to leave. He nodded in understanding and we said goodbye and off to botany I went. I’m sorry I didn’t take a picture of him. He woul’d’ve won the Eye Candy competition. *sigh* Except for his fangs. In todays world though, that really only adds to his appeal. It’s kind of disgusting how attractive he is actually.

After class I drove home and was eating top ramen before 1. Then I went back to the high school, remeasured the stuff for the math final and left. At 4 I went to the public library with M from History to work on our final, only to find out I didn’t actually need to. I drove her home after we talked for an hour, and when I got home and told my mom, she was… almost excited. She was like, You broke the law?! But she said it like it was a good thing and had half a smile on her face. It made me laugh. This is why I’m a good-kid not-so-nice-person. My house has no consequences.

There’s Something Wrong With The World

You know the world is going crazy when I (put as much emphasis on that as you can) am the subject of peoples dreams, am considered “cool”, can get anyone I want/ “the cream of the crop” and am a “heartbreaker”. Yes. This is the insanity that is my day.

In Math we’ve started our final project for the quarter, which is a group project that involves working with 3 other people to find the height of some object using trig. Thankfully our groups are just the people we sit by, otherwise I’d’ve been screwed. But anyway, I went to college and then came back (I caught an early bus and got to sit at starbucks and wait for half an hour which was awesome) to my high school at the end of the day to do this stupid project. My group and I ran all over the school looking for the object we were supposed to solve for and couldn’t find it until our math teacher drives by on his way out and asks what we’re doing. He points us in the right direction, and we get to work. It was really simple and quick once we knew what we were supposed to be doing (although, I still haven’t tried to solve the problem) and we were done gathering data quickly. My friend C (not C from sophomore year, but a different C) randomly asks who I like and why I haven’t found anybody because I could get anyone I wanted, “like the cream of the crop you know”. I was just like, wtf, where did this come from? That was my last experience of the day.

My first experience happened during lunch at the college. I was sitting with A and- jesus I can never remember his name. He and another guy have the same name in my pottery class! UGH. Whatever, I’m going to call him G even though I know that’s not his name. I was sitting with A, G and some other guy whose name I’ve only heard once. Well, A is a little bit new to the whole, gay friend thing, and loves mentioning that I’m gay as much as possible. Every other joke that could possibly relate (but not really) to being gay she smiled and looked at me and said it was because I was “shway” like my being gay was some big secret. Like, wtf. If these two guys didn’t know I was gay before A’s hints and clues, then they’re the dumbest guys I’ve ever met. Then she asked if she could tell them, because it was clearly killing her that she thought she knew something that they didn’t, and so when I told them she went about it in this long akward way that was like, OMG this girl is a spaz. She was like, Willow doesn’t really like me (she was standing up at the time, and pointed at her lower regions), and then danced around the subject.

I don’t even remember what I said, but all I could think was, this girl is taking too damn long for such a simple thing that doesn’t even matter to anybody but her. So I just made it clear what she was trying to say, but she continued anyway, which prompted the guy whose name I heard once to tell her how awkward she was being and asked for a change of subjects. I just said, A is in love with me and dreams about me naked. She’s also obsessed with gay sex. Her eye’s about popped out of her head and her mouth dropped to the floor. Then she started laughing hysterically (because everything I said is, in fact, true) which made the OnceNamedGuy start teasing her and made things less tense for him. I was fine. Neither of them seemed to care so I wasn’t going to. If I had been uncomfortable from the beginning it would’ve been a different matter.

After that A decided she needed to study and moved to another table and left me there to die with the guys. So, of course, all three of us start shouting at her to keep her from working, and because I’m the silliest of the three of us, and because A is easily distracted by silly things, I was silly. Which prompted G to say that he thought I was cool in Pottery but realized I was a freak. He’s really nice though and totally didn’t mean it offensively at all, and I wasn’t offended in the least. I was more shocked that he thought I was cool. I had to pause in what I was doing, I was like, Wait, you thought I was cool?! Apparently I was the cool, loud, funny kid in Pottery. But I let my freak flag fly too high and now the jig is up. Oh well. Also, A asked me to marry her when I complimented her ring.

After that was class, and then high school, and then home, which involved a nap and some knitting, vacuuming and some homework. I was texting H and told her about all of the above junk, and she said that I was a heart breaker. I couldn’t stop laughing. Oh how insane my life is. I went from being completely invisible a few months ago, to cool kid with sex appeal. Apparently short hair looks good on me.
Also, take a look at some pictures I took of the moon with my awesome camera tonight! I couldn’t believe how far it zoomed in.

At first this I thought this was as close as I could get, but theres this weird double zoom thing that alows you to zoom even further. Which results in this:

If I knew how to work the settings on the camera better this would’ve been a perfect picture. Alas, I do not. There was a rainbow-circle around the moon when I went out to look at it the first time, a long with a smaller red ring inside the rainbow but still not touching the moon. I can’t remember what that means exactly. It is something important though.