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Brett, the guy my aunt's roommates with and possibly dating but it was never really made clear to me, I think I mentioned him here before. He died last night of a heart attack. It's kind of hard to figure out how to react. I'm pretty sure he's younger than my parents (who are 57) and as far as I know he's been healthy, so it's a really huge shock. I feel terrible for my aunt, but at the same time, I only saw the guy twice a year, at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and I think he only started coming around 10 years ago, so I've seen him maybe 20 times in my life? I don't know. I just feel very weird about it.

Haven't been updating much recently since nothing much has been happening. Right now I'm pretty much just waiting for the end of March to get here so I can find out about college acceptances. I think it needs to be spring break already.

gah. Dell called last week and left a message saying my computer should arrive this Monday to this Wednesday, and today, still no computer. But I was finally able to check my order status, and apparently the order just shipped today, and it's due to arrive at earliest this Friday and at latest on Tuesday. al;skjdf gah! I'm getting really frustrated with this! They said they'd send me a new computer immediately when my mom e-mailed them 3 weeks ago! I'm sick of having no computer! My teachers have all been out to make my life miserable by assigning no homework and there's nothing new on TV (well, ok, there was a new House tonight, and there'll be Thursday night TV, but there was nothing last night, or anything else for the past few weeks) and I know the second I get my computer it'll be finals and I'll have a million things to do. a;lskdjf gah! And, ok, technically I have been able to use my mom's computer so I'm not totally helpless, but you can hardly classify this thing as a computer. I can't open more than webpage at once or it'll go bezerk and freeze and god I hate it.

And for some reason, everything's breaking! First it was the computer, then my mom's car, then my iPod suddenly and randomly on the way to Mammoth (the screen froze, but luckily after the battery wore out and it turned off, when I charged it up again it was fine. But now I'm getting anxious because I'm afraid it'll break permanently and if I lose my iPod, then all my music is gone forever because my computer is broken too), and our heater is broken. I mean, ok, Monday at 7 AM it was 70 degrees, but still. It gets cold at night, and it's supposed to be colder tomorrow.

sigh. Anyways, in better news, I realized yesterday suddenly that my 18th birthday is this coming Sunday. I'm not quite sure when that happened, since last I checked it was like a month away, but anyways. I'm going to try to do something on Saturday with friends, but I don't know how well that's going to work out since I don't really have any idea of what I want to do. We'll see. Oh, and today we finally did Secret Santa and Andrew got me this scarf with mooses (meese?) on it and candy and it came in a really, really nice box. So that made me happy, at least.

Oh and I got an e-mail today from an alum at Vassar to schedule an interview, which I'm really happy about since it's my first choice school and they don't know they're my first choice school and I really want them to know how much I want to go there. It's good too since I haven't had an interview in awhile, but it'll be right after my Pitzer interview on the 20th, so I'll at least have that to prep for the Vassar interview.

That's about it. aslkdj I really desperately want my computer. :(

I just got accepted to Lewis and Clark College! On their site it said they weren't going to notify people until January so I wasn't expecting it, but then I checked my e-mail and they'd e-mailed me saying I was accepted. I'm actually a lot more excited about it than I thought I would be, considering it's a safety and not on the top of my list. But it's my first acceptance, so that's cool, and I actually do really like the school and would choose it above schools that aren't even safeties, like UCLA and Haverford. So yeah. Yay for that! At least I know I've been accepted somewhere.

One more week until school's out! Not even a full week, more like 3 1/2 days. Probably won't be around much until then (not that I've been around much recently, anyways) because I have a lot of stuff next week (calc test, physics test, chem test, french essay, and I have to write a 10 minute absurdist play).

I'm still loving The O.C., by the way. It was totally awesome last night. And I loved The Office, too. TV makes me so happy. :D

Ah! Galaxy got into Columbia early decision! Congrats! I'm so jealous. Not of the Columbia part (I wouldn't want to go there, personally. Hate the core curriculum), but the fact that she knows where she's going to go to college and she doesn't have to worry anymore and she doesn't really have to worry about her grades. But yeah, anyways, that's really awesome for her.

I've been sucking at being on livejournal, but I've been really busy. I was sick Monday and Tuesday-ish (missed 4th-6th period and jazz band Monday, and Symphony on Tuesday) and I have a lot of tests/quizzes and stuff and my grades are slipping and AP English is freaking me out (we have a proposal for a paper with like 6 body paragraphs due and we don't have to actually write it but I don't really know where to even start with it and all my essays in high school have been in class and so it was acceptable when they were only like one body paragraph and a page and a half. And we also have to write a 10-minute absurdist play in about two weeks, and I am even more lost about that) and yeah. I can't wait until second semester. I just wish first semester would end before winter break like most normal schools so I'd be done with it in just a few weeks. blah.

I made jazz band! 1st tenor, too, since Andrew's doing bari sax. I kind of feel bad for Daniel, though, because I kept telling him he was better than he thought and the other Daniel (who did make it) probably wasn't as good as he thought he was, and then he ended up not making it. =/ He didn't seem too upset about it, though.

After school was fun. Got lunch with Emma, Galaxy, Richard, Elizabeth who was back from USC, Mike Tseng who was back from Purdue, Justin, Andrew, and a few people I'm forgetting, and then Emma, Galaxy, Richard, Elizabeth, and Tseng all came to my house for a little while before I had to leave for my interview.

The interview with the Tufts alum went all right. I don't think it'll get me in, but it's not going to keep me out, either. There are a few questions I wish I had answered differently (and somehow I started talking way too much about how I liked Berkeley. I think it was because she asked me what schools I was applying to and I named some and she said they were all similar except Berkeley and LA, and I started going on about how I visited Berkeley and really loved it, and then I was like "...wtf this is a Tufts interview why am I talking so much about Berkeley?!" and stopped, but uh. Yeah.) but overall it went well. She had a cat that was really cute.

I think I stopped caring about getting into Tufts, though. It's one of the most difficult I'm applying to (probably on after Stanford, Brown, and Amherst) and the more I look at it, the less I like it. I really loved it when I visited it, but there are other schools I like more now, and I don't like how it has a more rigid core curriculum (6 semesters of languages? Kind of crazy) and I prefer no core curriculum at all, so... yeah. I think I'm also trying to detach myself from it because I don't think I'll get in, so I don't want to be too disappointed when I'm rejected. But even besides that, when I was trying to figure out the reasons I want to go there in preparation for the interview, everything I could think of held true of other schools I was applying to, and they had other things that set them over the edge. So... yeah. I don't think I'll be too devastated if I don't make it.

I'll probably forget to say it tomorrow, so happy Thanksgiving!

So this week the only TV I watched was Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, My Name is Earl, and The Office, since it was pretty much a hell week for me (I had something major in every class: test in chem, quiz in calc, test and essay in French, test in physics, midterm and essay in English, and jazz band auditions) and then on Friday we had an away football game even though we already had our last football game ever because our football team was in CIF (like... championships, or playoffs, or whatever? I mean, they didn't even make it, they got a wildcard spot or something, but yeah). So today I had like 12 hours of TV to catch up on, and I watched everything except the now three episodes of Supernatural I've missed and last week's Torchwood (which I'll watch in an hour or so). And I'm very surprised to say that out of all the TV I watched (Prison Break, Heroes, Studio 60, House, Ugly Betty, The O.C., Doctor Who, and Battlestar Galactica), the episode of The O.C. was my favorite. I just don't understand how this has happened, how The O.C. is suddenly so good again! I loved Ugly Betty a lot too, and everything else was very good as well, but somehow The O.C. was my favorite. Weird.

Anyways, at the end of the football game yesterday (which sucked, by the way, for many different reasons, and I'm glad we lost 28 to 2 so we don't have to go to another), Mrs. Daley announced that she resigned. I don't really know how to feel about it, because I didn't really like her and I wasn't really happy with how she ran things, but at the same time I did feel bad for her. So now I don't know who's doing jazz band (Mrs. Bentley, maybe? Or Mr. Johnson?) but that explains why Mrs. Bentley announced on Thursday jazz band results would be posted next week but couldn't explain why.

I'm glad next week is Thanksgiving because I could really do with a break. Ah, but this year feels like it's moving so fast! Thanksgiving means it's almost December, which means it's almost winter break, which means it's almost January, which means first semester is almost over and I can stop studying so hard and just get B's in all my classes and in January I'll hear from the three schools I applied to early action (Goucher, Colorado College, and Lewis and Clark). So weird to think about how senior year is almost half-way through.

Oh, god, I can't wait until The Office Season 2 DVDs come out. 10 commentary tracks? 2 1/2 hours of deleted scenes? A 17 minute gag real?! I hope I don't have much to do the weekend I get them, because I know I won't want to do anything but watch those DVDs.

Registration was on Monday. ( My Schedule )

I am 1/3 of the way through applying to all the colleges I'm planning on applying to, which makes me happy. Actually probably more, since I've done the essays for UCLA and Berkeley, you just can't submit the app until like October or November or something. But everything's done for them.

What else? Oh, yesterday after finishing uniform fittings, I went to the Woodbridge center with a bunch of people which was fun. We went to Barnes and Noble and I found The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde for $2.50 so I ended up getting it because I had wanted to read it, and come on. $2.50! How could I not get it? I'm looking forward to reading it, but I still have two summer reading books to finish first. blah.

Only three more days of band camp left! Can't wait until it's over.

So, when I said that I would be answering that picture meme I was going to do this week, I forgot that this week I was going to start seriously studying for APs. Pretty much all week all I've been doing is studying for my final in AP Euro (a week before I take the AP), the actual AP exam, and SAT II's (Math IIC and French). The only time I've really spent not studying for them was last night when Soan and Emma slept over and we watched 10 Things I Hate About You (my 500th time) and Knight's Tale (1st time) and became puddles over Heath Ledger.

Anyways, tomorrow I'm going to Boston for spring break to visit colleges and won't be back until the next Sunday, and then I'll only have 2 weeks for APs and SAT II's, so basically I'm going on hiatus. I may pop in to write a brief post now and then, but I'll be pretty much entirely gone from now until May 6th. See you all when I get back!

So, I think my father said yes about me getting a new iPod? It wasn't ever explicitely stated, but I think it was implied. We kept going around in circles with our conversation. He'd be all "I'm not getting you one tonight" and I'd be all "...I'm not asking for one now. I just want to know if I will be able to get one sometime." and he'd be all "The silver one should be enough for right now" and I'd be all "...yes. But. In the future." and he'd be all "Sometime" and I'd be all "...but do you have any idea of when?" and then he'd be all "I'm not getting you one tonight" and it'd continue like that over and over again. sigh.

Anyways. Today I had my junior counseling. ( I ramble on too long about something no one cares about. )

Um, lastly. Something. Oh yeah! I got my Wicked soundtrack today! I haven't listened to it yet since I just got home and am burning it to my computer now, but I will.

Back, finally!

( The weekend )

Anyways, yeah. Good weekend. Now I suppose I'll go catch up on TV shows I missed. I'll return to my friendslist probably tomorrow night.