Thursday, August 30, 2007

EEK!!!

*singsongy* I AM SO HAPPY I AM SO HAPPY I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guess why?

1. My mom is getting me an electric guitar!!!! And it shipped today!!!! and
2. My Amazon order (placed in my mom's account) is already on its way over!!!!

I have been waiting so long for both packages!!! Well, no, not really, I'm just so excited about it that it seems like it's been a long time but it really hasn't.

*singsongy* HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PotterLover

P.S. This is really short compared to my other posts...... it feels weird writing so little!!!

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Publications and High School

So after being all weird last week, especially with my change of font, I can safely say that I have returned to normal! Or at least, as normal as I can be...

First: Publications.

I am so freakin' excited!!! Editor of our newspaper!!! I was also talking with a bunch of my friends who are also on Publications and we were chatting about how we could improve it so much from last year. Color on the front page, extending the newspaper to lower form (or at least 5th grade), comics, sudoku and crossword puzzles, etc. You get the gist. I really should write down all our amazing ideas, cuz as an editor, I am one of the people in charge and I guess I have more authority than some of the other people in Publications... But I also have to clear this stuff with my co-editor, who is currently in Hawaii... So I'll just tell her about it on Thursday and Friday during the training sessions...

Second: High School. Brilliant.

My mom wants me to start looking at schools, so I am. Kinda. The first school I checked out was my first choice school, but now I'm not so sure. I found at least 3 typos on ONE page, so that kinda discouraged me. And I also compared the SAT scores I got with the seniors' scores at that school, and I must say, I'm disappointed. My math score is pretty much the same as theirs! Honestly, an incoming eighth grader with the same math SAT scores as high school SENIORS? Not cool.

So I went to go check out another school. Much better. No typos. Although the website is a little bland, I know for a fact that the school is really good academically. Sports-wise, I'm not so sure, but they definitely have smart graduates who go off to good schools. And besides, last year's student council president is a freshman there this year, so I am absolutely positive that it's good. Whether or not I'm going to go there next year... That's a whole other matter.

There's also another school I'm looking at, but that one is like all the way across the city/county. While it's really cool (solar panels!) and all, the commute would be hard. Either my dad would have to go to work later and get stuck in the rush-hour traffic, or my mom would have to take me there really early but still possibly be late for work, or I could go by myself but I don't know of any bus routes near my house that go there unless I transfer a million times, or I could carpool but I don't know anyone who lives near me who would go to that school. So, not incredibly good.

And then there's a really good school near me (which is actually the rival of the school whose website had at least 3 typos) that has good sports teams and academics. No carpool needed too, since I could walk there. I live like 3 blocks away from it! But. It's too green. That's all I can say. Yes, I know, I'm colorist. But seriously. My friend Jocelyn went there for a camp thing for 5 weeks and after that, she nearly died from overdosing on green.

So yeah. That's about it. I gotta go look at the high school packets my school handed out to us last year... B.O.R.I.N.G.

PotterLover

Friday, August 24, 2007

Swim Meet

My job: to make a random decision to change font. Your job: deal with it. (Ha ha like the song by Corbin Bleu!!!)

Anyhoo, swim meets... We have a swim meet coming up, but I am facing a dilemma. A Hobson's Choice, as some people who have read A Series of Unfortunate Events might call it.

I don't wanna go, especially because I won't be getting like ANY training for it, since I'll be doing cross-country and soccer (which I'm taking up again after like... 4 years) and my schedule will be so full that I have no swimming time. Because my schedule will probably go something like this:

Monday: cross-country practice
Tuesday: cross-country practice or meet
Wednesday: soccer practice, possible cross-country meet
Thursday: piano, or cross-country practice if my teacher can't make it
Friday: cross-country
Saturday: soccer game

(Yes, I know, cross-country actually takes a TON of work. Running long distance, over hills and into valleys, your legs NEED to be trained up, and ready to roll.)

Which leaves only Sunday. But we have no swim practice on Sunday (nor would I want to go on a perfectly good Sunday) so I would have absolutely no time for swimming.

My swim meet is on a Saturday/Sunday. And I have another few problems, after my busy schedule.

One problem: I'll probably have a soccer game on Saturday, and on Sunday, I'll be dead beat. Running around, kicking a ball, defending my goal with the goalie, it's a hard job being a sweeper or part of the defense line.

Second problem: My coach said to us on Wednesday that if we don't do our three events at this meet, then we have to swim EVERY event on EVERY day of the meet. Well, I'm not sure about the Friday one... but who cares right now? (I really should.)

Third problem: My meet sheet thing (that slip of paper where you say which events you're gonna do) is due TODAY. And my parents don't seem to really care. No, actually, it's not that they don't care, just that they have other more pressing matters. But this is kinda important.

Seriously. How am I supposed to tell my parents that A) I don't want to go to this meet, but B) if I don't go, however, my coach will murder me? And they won't understand either. They never went to swim meets before, nor did they have an evil torturing coach who loves to kill his swim kids during practice. Oh sure, they've been to my swim meets. But you know, coach/parent, adult/adult, they get along perfectly well. So I have no one on my side in this argument!

So my Hobson's Choice: I can either A) go to this meet with no previous training in the weeks before, die, and get yelled at by my coach for getting a ridiculously slow time, or B) not go to this meet without prior training, run cross-country as usual, play soccer, and die at the next meet where my coach will force me to swim every event on every day.

Yes, I know. My life sucks at this point. I should never have gone to the pool Wednesday. I KNEW I should have just gone today instead since I already HAVE TO (teaching all the little Learn-to-Swim kids), but NO, my parents were like, "You've already missed so much swimming, so you're going to the pool today."

And guess what? First day back, and I'm so dead. I'm serious. I went for like so long with no swimming whatsoever, and then, look what happens: I almost died during the WARM UP. That's so not right. But whatever.

And I need to deal with this problem before 4:00 PM. And this is so not gonna happen.

Ugh. PotterLover is not happy. Not happy at all.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Psycho Fly

Yes, a psycho fly. It's kinda funny, actually. It's making strange shapes and weird random spiral-y dives up and down, in the living room of my friend's house. And it makes strange angled circles instead of normal round circles. Which proves its psycho-ness.

I don't like flies (or any insects actually, except for butterflies) but I have to admit, this fly is quite interesting. And surprisingly interesting enough for me to not want to kill it, like I do towards most insects. Especially scary ants and mosquitoes and other creepy things like them.

There's not much else to say here... since I've already informed you about the tale of the psycho fly. It was still flying weirdly last time I checked. I bet it still is.

Have fun flying, strange psycho fly!!!

PotterLover

Monday, August 20, 2007

Eureka!

Wow. Eureka, as the title of this post says.

I was so incredibly bored tonight that I was watching Disney Channel, and Spy Kids 3 was on, so I figured, "Why not? It's not like I have anything else to do." So I plopped down onto the couch and watched. And then near the end of the movie,


"EUREKA!!!"

Well, I didn't actually say that out loud, but I did make an amazing discovery. Actually, it was my mom, but whatever. She told me the info anyways.

Tony Shalhoub (the amazing actor who plays Adrian Monk in the wonderful show Monk on USA Network) is in Spy Kids!!! All 3 of them!!!

I forget who he plays, cuz he isn't mentioned much in the parts of the movie I watched. It's like, Mr. Something... All I know for sure is that he plays the guy with like multiple eyes and multiple fingers or something like that.

I'll keep this post kinda short.

PotterLover

Friday, August 17, 2007

Almost Over

So this kinda sucks. And it kinda doesn't. My vacation in Taiwan is almost over. My plane leaves tomorrow.
Pros: No more mosquitoes/mosquito bites/other creepy insects!!!
Cons: Oh shoot, I forgot... Oh yeah! No more intensely good food. Seriously. Taiwan has some of the best food everrrrr.

Another thing that's almost over is summer vacation. Again:
Pros: Publications!!! I'm the awesome News Editor of the newspaper!!! And one of my best friends, Jaclyn, is my partner, the Features Editor!!!
Cons: No more sleeping in... Oh well. It's not like I sleep in incredibly late anyways.

Ew. I have to report this.

So yesterday, my aunt/uncle took me/my family/my cousin (their kid) to stay at some wooden house in some random forest on some strange mountain. We ate dinner at some outdoor restaurant and I picked up some veggies (which I no longer like anymore) from the plate and put it in my bowl. And guess what I found?

A DEAD MOSQUITO ON TOP OF MY FOOD.

Honestly. I screamed quietly. Just so I wouldn't disturb the other customers. UGH! It was so disgusting. And it was even worse cuz I have, like, an extremely severe case of insectophobia and there was an INSECT in my FOOD. Kinda scary, you know, especially for an insectophobic.

Okay. I can't talk about this now. I am SO going to sleep.

It's midnight here cuz I'm not back home. Don't get your time zones confused.

PotterLover

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Vacation!!!

The title states it all. I'm going on vacation!!! Like a vacation within a vacation. Because summer is kinda like a vacation...

Anyhoo, I'm going to Taiwan, where my air has been polluted by Cameron/Ca-moron. But at least I don't have it as bad as my poor friend Jocelyn, who unfortunately not only has to breathe the polluted air at the pool, she also swim in the polluted water.

Luckily for her (and me, I guess, in some odd way) Ian is in Maine (or Boston) so she won't have to swim in his water. Honestly, when I have to swim with him... My tongue literally hurts from his polluting the water.

OMG funny story:

So there was this one time a few months ago. We all used to call which lane we were gonna swim in, and Jocelyn and I called lane 2. Afterward, we went to go change and when we came out, Ian and Cameron/Ca-moron were in our lane, so we went to the other side of the pool and swam in lane 5 instead.

This girl (I forget who, was it Liz?) (or Doris) asked us why we weren't swimming in our lane. (Yeah! It was Doris!) Jocelyn and I looked at her, and then meaningfully at Ian and Cameron/Ca-moron. She understood. Kinda. And then I said,

"Our lane has been polluted."

Everyone cracked up. But Ian heard. But oh well. He already knows I don't like him. I don't HATE him, I just don't like him. But I do HATE when he continually stares at me. Honestly. Just go away. Find someone else to stare at. Like your girlfriend. Janet, I think her name was. She's at least "interested" in you, unlike me. Gosh.

Anyhoo, end of story!

Yeah, so, I'll still have Internet, but I won't be posting as often. I think. I'll probably be writing and reading more.

VACATION ROCKS!!!

PotterLover

P.S. Sorry Jocelyn for leaving you all alone... With the polluted water and such. Hope you and Tulia make some strong friendship bonds like ours while I'm away. I miss you already!!! And I'm not even at the AIRPORT!!! I'm still sitting at home...

Well, bye for real!!!