dancing and spinning and looking like a fool

Well, hello there. Haven't seen you in awhile.

This is going to be one of those infamous "uptade" posts that I personally don't like reading; but somehow I feel it is necessary due to my most unexplained absence.

I can't say anything interesting has been going on. My room has turned purple, I have turned 18, and I survived that blizzard that had everyone talking. Other than that, things have pretty much stayed the same, and I can't complain.

Oh, but there is something else. I certainly did read a lot. Wanna hear it? Too bad, I'm putting them down anyway!

Scumble by Ingrid Law: 4 out of 5

You Were Made to Make a Difference by Max Lucado: 2 out of 5

Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt: 5 out of 5

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling: 4 out of 5

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling: 3 out of 5

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling: 4 out of 5

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer: 4 out of 5

The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice: 3 out of 5

Crazy Love by Francis Chan: 3 out of 5

Mara, Daughther of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw: 5 out of 5

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton: 3 out of 5

Coffeehouse Angel by Suzanne Selfors: 3 out of 5

A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce: 3 out of 5

Candor by Pam Bachorz: 4 out of 5

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead: 3 out of 5

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle: 4 out of 5

Any Which Wall by Laurel Snyder: 4 out of 5

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis: 4 out of 5

Walking with God by John Elderge: 2 out of 5

dawn treador

"Hurry up! We've got to get our tickiets before the seats fill up!"

"Maggie, no one cares about this movie," said Christy.

We make our way to the ticket counter.

Christy is up first. "One for Dawn Treador," she tells the ticket-guy. I am bouncy. I am gittery.

An ackward moment passes. He says, "I've never heard of that movie before."

Confusion. "The Voyage of the Dawn Treador?" Christy asks again.

"Nope." I have to stop my jaw from dropping. It's the premere night for heaven's sakes. "Oh! The Chronicoles of Narnia?

"Yes..." She gets her ticket. Then I get mine.

We start our way to the movie theatre. "See," she says. "Nobody cares about this movie."

and I was writing my research paper

The Word document was open, and Switchfoot was playing. I was writing:

"...responsible for the aforementioned-"

aforementioned? There's no way my teacher is ever going to believe a senior in high school chose that word-chose that word and knew what it meant...

"...responsible for these-"

these? Now I sound like a third grader.

Great! She'll love it!

out of context

Taking things out of context is not good. Everyone knows that, right? I'm not the only one?

Apparently, changing quotes to make them say what you want them to say is fine.

"Manipulating is different from lying," says Mrs. A, my English teacher, on the subject of our research paper.

Well, then, what is it?

sunshine, won't you be my mother?

The worst part about getting an new book-yes, there is actually a worst part-is when you have to stop reading it but have no bookmark. You started it in excitement without thinking about stoping, so naturally, you didn't think of something to hold your place.

During my summer vacation, there was this lovely time during the day when I took a book outside and sat down to read. Unfortunately, I had to stop, and of course I didn't bring a bookmark. But, oh look, there's a tree. Yes, I'll just take this one leaf, if you don't mind.

I've had the leaf pressed in many different pages in many different books. But it has gotten to the point of cracking and crumpling. And then there are these little pieces of leaf on my carpet and on my desk. And sometimes they get in the space between the pages where they stick there because your finger doesn't fit. So you shake the book frantically and get frustrated when you get part of it out but then it breaks. Yes, I have plenty of experience with this, why do you ask? ;)

Well, I've had enough of the book-shaking and have decided this cracking and crumpling has got to stop. It served me well, and I even got complimented on being creative when someone spotted the leaf. I had to take a picture of it before I let it go however, but then I put it in the palm of my hand and crushed it-never again would it torment me inbetween pages.