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Getting a driver's license
Posted Dec 28, 2003
It's hard where I'm from. First I took a class during my gym period for about a semester. That summer I signed up for a simulation class at a different school because mine didn't have any of the equipment, like the chairs that are made to look like driver's seats and dashboards. I finished with the sim class in October. I figured, "Yay! Only range class in the streets, a little practice with my dad, and I'm set." Then the simulation class teacher said we wouldn't be able to start range until the 20th of December. Yeesh. Well, I show up on the 20th, five days before x-mas. I go on the road in the streets and it was good until I asked when the next class was. "Next week?" I ask. "No, soonest we can get you in is the 29th" is what the range instructor said. I am quite dissapointed, to say the least. It's going to be close to one year since I started my first driving classes and I'm getting impatient.
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Latest reply: Dec 28, 2003
Hooray For the Hols!
Posted Dec 20, 2003
Today ended the last day of school before Winter Break. As usual for this day, I exchanged gifts and ate a LOT of cookies. I myself dispensed non-denominational Oreo cookies to every one I knew but I'm still left with almost half a bag. (Does this say something about my popularity? No, it was a fairly large amount of cookies. Besides, some of my friends dissed the Oreos, which surprised me.)
I'm finally bringing ny coronet home to practice. Also, my dad wants me to play the christmas songs I have learned to the family. No problem except that the acoustics in my house are way different from an auditorium or my school bandroom. This works against me, making the coronet sound weak and strained if I don't have perfect breathing and mouth position.
I got my PSAT score: 183 points, the 89th percentile, which is about twenty points shy of a National Merit Scholarship but still pretty good. I know three kids that have something like 220 or above, which is crazy good.
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Latest reply: Dec 20, 2003
How the Flu Bug Ruined My Life
Posted Dec 18, 2003
It all began Saturday two weeks ago, when my mom sneezed into my soup and I spent the morning outside in the cold without a good hat.
The very next day I started with a runny nose and a horrible phlegmy cough. It was extremely disgusting and it worried my poor mother to death. Dad was less sympathetic because he knew I would have to miss school on Monday. Still, he took me to the doctor to see if she would declare me good to go. Instead I got a sentence of three days in bed. Three sick days. Sure, it sounds good but I had a VIRUS eating me inside out, the drugs were messing with my stomach, and I had fluids leaking out of everywhere. I couldn't even sleep well because the coughing was so bad.
Monday I just lay dead and ate my nasty medicine. Tuesday I tried to my homework, I truly did, but since I had a coughing fit every five minutes and a boogy coming out every thirty seconds the going was slow and I finally just collapsed in my ease chair. Since TV and the computer were forbidden at this time I listened nonstop to public radio. I learned that the news is given five to eight times a day but that the same report is repeated for almost 48 hours! And though I enjoy all the weeekend shows, the stuff during the week is very trite. It is always one story about a third world country followed by another story about someone in jail followed by an excerpt from an unknown author's memoir recalling how the holidays were always so great.
I had to make up three day's worth of homework Wednesday night. I was still very ill but guess what? My group for history never bothered to start the project due that Thursday. I spent half the night furiously typing my instant messages and eventually I gave up and let some other poor school chum finish the cruddy script.
That's not the worst part. The worst part was that I missed my mom's naturalization ceremony, when she became a US citizen. I was too sick to go to one of the most important days of my mommy's life. It's just too sad to think about.
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Latest reply: Dec 18, 2003
Boo Hoo
Posted Oct 24, 2003
I was writing a brilliant journal entry when my computer crashed and I lost it 
(danm you, Bill Gates!) Oh well, Here's what I did this month:
I played coronet in China Town for a parade. The band (and I) played very badly, but I ate there with a chinese friend, Jing, and Julia, another friend, in a great restaurant. We ate spicy jellyfish, which tasted mostly like sesame seeds and was chewy like gummi worms. Then we had friut freezes (not the best idea for a chilly fall day, i admit) which were good, except I tried the tapioca balls, which were the size of small marbles and black. I tried to chew the first one, but it was tough, it had a slimy surface, and it tasted like paper. It was like eating an eyeball then, but i learned to just swallow the suckers whole.
I bought a pink Care Bears jacket and a pink Super Grover T-Shirt. I don't usually buy stuff like this, but they are really cool.
PSATS, which are a practice or the SATs, but it made me nervous anyway.
I bought Hot Date, an expansion pack for my Sims game and I'm addicted once again. Playing the sims game is like playing with dolls on the computer because you create your own characters and build their houses and control their actions in the house. I should write more on this later.
I finished my simulation driving class, so now all i need to get my driver's liscense is to take Traffic and 25 hrs practice with dad.
I bought 2 CDs, Rooney, by Rooney and Humanistic, by the Abandoned Pools. I like the AP album better, but Rooney has the catchiest song since Phantom Planet's California
Those are October's highlights. my b-day is the 29, so if you want to give me a present it would be very much appreciated 
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Latest reply: Oct 24, 2003
My Silly Celebrity Crush
Posted Oct 4, 2003
I am seriously in love with Dominic Monaghan. You'll know him as Merry the hobbit from Lord of the Rings, but we go much farther. The first time I saw him act in the Hetty Wainthrop Mysteries on TV I was smitten. He is so cute and funny. When I saw him recently on the Sharon Osbourne Show wearing a T-shirt with a kitten print on the front I was hopping up and down with emotion, blowing kisses at the screen and making little animal cooing noises.
I day-dream about him every day. Me and him are driving a convertible across America, or we're in a cozy flat in a London suburb. He'll crack jokes and i'd laugh along, and we would have walks through the park, or sit in a dark and private pub exchanging life stories . . .
Why o why am I doomed like this? I know my feelings aren't rational, but it feels so nice when I see his face. I suppose since I didn't participate in this adolescent sport of celebrity crushes it's hitting me twofold now that I'm too old for this kind of thing. Also it's a natural phase in every girl's life, I suppose. -sigh- Dom, if you're out there give me a sign, won't you?
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Latest reply: Oct 4, 2003
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