[08 Jan 2006|06:43pm] New journal. Because I feel like it. Can now be found at http://www.livejournal.com/users/agelessparadox. [laughs] This could be a stupid idea. Especially considering that the only reason I opted for a new one was for the sake of a username change. XP give a thought

Happy (belated) holidays, one and all! [02 Jan 2006|04:16pm] [ mood | aggravated ] [ music | "Torn" - Natalie Imbruglia ] [twitches] Online school calendar says classes begin tomorrow. TOMORROW. No. No no no. Vacation cannot be OVER. School calendar, you are lying to me. I don't believe you. ( OMFG my mommy is channeling the Gossipy Teenage Girl spirit! ) Oh, and I think I have a lab report due at some point next week. Except, uh, I don't remember what we did during the lab. Or what the purpose of the lab was. Or anything about the lab, really. Good job, Andrea. give a thought

To the beauty of wasting time... [20 Dec 2005|10:14am] [ mood | rejuvenated ] [ music | "A Song For You" - Ray Charles ] So I spent my entire afternoon yesterday watching oriental martial arts films dubbed into French. No, really. It was terribly amusing. After that, went to dinner at Japanese "auntie" and "uncle's" house. They were impressed that I knew how to say "love," "brother," and "sister" in Japanese. I blamed it on manga, anime, the Internet at large, and the Japanese boarders at Lawrenceville. I mourn the lack of intelligent life in forums and fanfiction-zines. Those with no basic concept of grammar, spelling, and logic/maturity in general should not be allowed near the Internet. Ever. Hee. I took a personality quiz. I ended up with "gentle and caring." And, um, this picture: So apparently, I'm female!Subaru. ...yay? 4 remembered| give a thought

[14 Dec 2005|09:06pm] Christmas break starts at noon tomorrow. I have no more homework. ... I am so distressed. Seriously. I don't know what to do with myself now. No, really. After my friends and I got out of classes, we went to the library and googled pictures of random Pokemon. We're all like, "Wow. We don't have a mountain of homework due tomorrow. It's unnatural. WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO NOW?" *angsts* Oh well. Sleep, manga, and fanfiction, here I come. Oh, and I should probably use the time to salvage whatever's left of my social life. I haven't done anything remotely social since, um, the last weekend of Thanksgiving break. I have no life. 4 remembered| give a thought

Christmas break, you are so near yet so far away... [11 Dec 2005|10:56am] My editor didn't kill me. Actually, she sent me an e-mail complimenting me on the article and on my amazing ability to actually turn things in the day they're due. This made me happy. Now I've been drafted by Miss Editor-in-Chief herself to write a review of the play. I am not quite so happy about this. I have no idea in hell how to review a play. But, well, you just don't say "no" to the editor-in-chief. Or at least I don't. But I have self esteem issues and inferiority complexes and all that good stuff. MY CLASSES THUS FAR. Algebra II: There are two gossipy freshmen girls that sit in front of me. Every single day. It kills me inside. Oh, and I got a B- on my first test. Managed to make Daddy slightly-less-pissed-off by pretending that it was a quiz. Honors Chem: I think I have a C average in this class. And we're only two weeks into the course. Congratulations to me, I probably set a record. AP Euro: I have Mrs. Smit now. She's vaguely intimidating, but hey, she have me a B on an in-class that Mr. Stehle would totally have given me an F for. So I decided that I like her. Advanced Chinese Honors: Actually not!failing. I am very proud of myself. English: ...I'm not sure that this class counts. Not to say that I don't absolutely adore my teacher, but we're analyzing poetry right now. Poetry. ("This poem is about life. But what does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to be real? Can you honestly say that you yourself are real?") give a thought

Mmm, school [04 Dec 2005|12:34pm] [ mood | panicked ] [ music | Aida broadway soundtrack ] By tomorrow I must: - Be prepared for a Chinese vocab quiz - Be prepared for a chem nomenclature quiz - Have a freakish amount of AP Euro reading done - Have some idea of how the hell I'm going to manage to get my article for the school newspaper in by Tuesday I think I can probably manage the first three. It's the fourth I'm not entirely sure about. Because, meh, scheduling conflicts and unanswered content/interview questions and word count and EEK. Watch me not be able to turn it in. > < God, my editor is going to keeeeeel meeeee... give a thought

Illegally downloaded manga eats my brain [28 Nov 2005|08:15pm] [ mood | calm ] [ music | Hairspray ] I HAVE TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL TOMORROW. *cries* Why, Thanksgiving break? Why must you up up up and fly away like this? Today: - I woke up this morning with my lips really red and sore and swollen. Wtf. Did I sleepwalk out of the house in the middle of the night and go off to make out with random people or something? - My mother made me go to the department store with her. Because apparently, she needed a carthorse. Oh well. Free samples are love. Especially those sausage turnover thingies. - I got a haircut. Rawr. Actually, it wasn't much of a haircut. More like add layers and trim off all the split ends. Hairstylist informed me that I'd likely lose ten pounds if I just shaved my head on account of freakishly thick hair. I WILL NOT WASTE ALL MY TIME BEING AN INTERNET WHORE. NO, NO, I WON'T. Actually, maybe I will. Or all of tonight, anyway. I don't really have anything else to do right now. I am such a loser. XP Oh, and the next time someone catches me reading manga, I'm totally telling them that I'm only "practicing my modern speaking skills." And the next time someone mentions that a wife died a few months after her husband's passing, my brain is going to go "it's because the husband's soul turned evil and ate the wife's soul!" Yeah. Illegally downloaded manga eats my brain. give a thought

[22 Nov 2005|10:48am] You know, there's something to be said for my father's talent for making me cry even during Thanksgiving break. give a thought

Slowly losing my sanity [17 Nov 2005|12:20am] AP Euro final tomorrow morning. I can't do this. I've broken down sobbing twice already tonight. And now I keep on bursting into random fits of maniacal giggling for no apparent reason. Dear God, I've cracked. I'm completely losing it. Like Rousseau. Teehee. England Was ruled by a king But then parliament got pissed at the king Kicked him off Got a dictator Got pissed off at him Kicked his song off Got a king Yeah. Definitely lost it. I have been driven insane by a measly academic course. I am pathetic, yes I am. 2 remembered| give a thought

Case of the missing vaseline [13 Nov 2005|09:48pm] ...I think the cleaning lady stole my vaseline. See, this morning, my mom dragged me out of bed, because she wanted to drive into town for brunch, and needed someone to help her look after the dogs (who were coming along in order not to bother said cleaning lady while she worked). Anyway, I remember picking up my container of vaseline and putting it on my bedside table, right before I left. And when I came back, it was gone. No one came into my room besides the cleaning lady. Why she would want my vaseline, I don't know. Maybe she had chapped lips and figured that no one would care/notice if she happened to pocket a container of vaseline. So she took it. Mystery solved. That is my theory of the day. Good night. give a thought

Andrea is a human waterworks system [12 Nov 2005|11:04pm] [ mood | weepy ] [ music | Avenue Q ] So I'm sort of going through that odd period right before final exams where every little thing is making me cry, which is annoying, because crying always makes me feel stupid. I'm more of an emotional wreck right now than I have any right to be, and that's really bad, considering I have finals next week. I guess everything just sort of builds up. My friend has a date to homecoming with the guy she's obsessed with, and I feel bad because I should be happier for her, and I also feel really hypocritical because I keep on talking about how a boyfriend is nothing but a time sink, only then I sulk about the fact that I don't have one, and I'm really scared that I'm going to screw up the finals, especially the AP Euro one, cause that one sounds kinda impossible, and my grandmother had a stroke, and practically died, which scared me more than I thought it would, and I discovered that I really really hate hospital atmospheres, and I miss CTY, and I can't even go to homecoming because I don't have time and don't want to make trouble for my parents, and it's probably ending in like half an hour anyway. give a thought

[09 Nov 2005|06:45pm] [ mood | anxious ] Quote stolen from Rachel's away message: "We can eliminate homelessness entirely by eating the homeless. I've heard from an anonymous source that homeless people taste like chicken. Now, I don't know about you, but I like chicken! " ~Dickie Richards for President ... Thank you for that, Rachel. I love you. So very, very much. ( The final exams shall kill me dead. ) Highlight of the week: One day in AP Euro class... Teacher: "On a side note, Catherine the Great also had a very active sex life well into her sixties. She engaged in many...um...escapades up until her dying day!" Random student: "Ew. That's kinda gross." Teacher: *pointed glare* "There is still life after thirty." Student: "Um, it's gross for a woman, I mean." Class: *collective guffawing* I really don't think I should be blamed for having cheeks that vaguely resemble tomatoes during our class discussions. You know, it actually occurs to me that we spend pretty much every single AP Euro class discussing either sex, sexuality, or torture. Have concluded that Mr. Stehle is simply a perverted old man. But it makes the lectures significantly more interesting, and keeps everyone from falling asleep. So that's ok. I'm still waiting for someone in our class to randomly start talking about 16th century S&M or something. You know, to bring it full circle. X/1999 Renaissance Style. Now there's an interesting lecture topic. give a thought

Academic sleeping potion [05 Nov 2005|07:24pm] [ mood | crotchety ] [ music | Sarah McLachlan - Full of Grace ] You see, my chemistry teacher is a really, really nice guy. In fact, if he could actually explain stuff, he would be a great teacher. Too bad it's impossible for anyone to understand his lectures. Chem class tends to be this constant battle to stay awake. I think that's why I never absorb anything. I'm too busy trying to think of ways to keep my eyes open to worry about anything else. Then my eyelids start getting heavy, and I begin to notice that my binder is actually soft enough to make a vaguely comfortable pillow if I lean on it a certain way... Cough. In short, it's Very Very Bad. Sad thing is, I always tell myself that I can take a nap after class is over. But, um, after class is over, I tend to become miraculously un-sleepy. In fact, I tend to feel almost energetic. *is dead* 4 remembered| give a thought

Still ripping off Cecilia's list!style entry [04 Nov 2005|08:08pm] 1. So I've been totally slacking off homework lately. It's probably going to come back and bite me at some point, but right now, I will pretend not to know that. 2. I got a 92 on that monster of an 8-page math test. I think I nearly fainted from shock. I so thought that thing was going to wipe my math average out for good. 3. I find myself oddly tempted to try NaNoWriMo. Only it's a little late to start, and, um, I have final exams in a week. (Stupid freaking overachiever prep school with stupid freaking exams at the end of every single term.) So, yeah. No NaNoWriMo for me, unfortunately, on account of the likelihood of being killed in the process. 4. I took a nap in one of the reading rooms of the school library today after classes. (I didn't mean to. I was going to do AP Euro homework, I swear. But the textbook is amazingly boring, and the couch was really comfy, and kinda warm, and I got 5 hours of sleep last night.) Was rudely awakened an hour later by some tour guide lady telling parents of potential!Lawrentian about how Thornton Wilder (or maybe it was Nathaniel Hawthorne, I can't remember which) was a Lawrenceville graduate. I don't think they noticed me dozing on the couch. That would have been interesting. "Yes. Um, this is a current student. Our students are supposed to be future world leaders. The fate of the world is in their hands." Haha. The world is so doomed. 2 remembered| give a thought

The half-day that isn't really a half-day [02 Nov 2005|07:59pm] [ mood | busy ] [ music | Billy Joel ] 1. Wednesdays do not feel like real half-days. Not when you have to stay on campus even after classes end, on account of the whole sports requirement thing. So I end up getting home at, like, 6 PM anyway. 2. "Carol of the Bells" should be called "Carol of the Demonic Children." Seriously. When you shift your facial expression, and lower your head a certain way, and sing the whole "lalalalala" part, you totally end up looking and sounding like a demon child. I say our entire chorus ought to do it that way at winter concert. Oooooh, and we'll be in the chapel too. Ah, the glorious, glorious possibilities... 3. They served curly fries at lunch today. How can something so greasy and fattening and bad for your health taste so sinfully GOOD? 4. I hate grammar. Don't you hate grammar? I do. It's boring and pointless and blah. But there's a form-wide exam in it tomorrow, so, um, guess that just sucks for me doesn't it? 5. I actually did homework while I was at school today. I am so proud of myself. Normally, I can't concentrate on it at all until I get home. Which is LATE. But I did all my AP Euro reading right before dance class. (I shall now proceed to ignore the fact that I still haven't studied grammar, or done my chem homework, or my math homework, or my Chinese, or...um, yeah. Ignoreignoreignore...) 4 remembered| give a thought

Procrastination Galore [01 Nov 2005|10:35pm] [ mood | apathetic ] So, um, I have a livejournal now. In case you couldn't tell. Because Cecilia told me to get one. I screwed around with the layout while I was supposed to be doing my homework. Here is the ever so wondrous result. No, I'm not a dreadful procrastinator. Why do you ask? 3 remembered| give a thought

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