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Um, so today was interesting. Senior meeting thingy zero period, so no real gym, which was nice. Second period got commended by the American Legion for Vietnam project; that was sort of cool. Lunch we had a barbecue, if for any particular reason I don't know what it is. Nate kept trying to steal my purse, almost succeeded twice, and opted for stealing my drink instead. Also had ice cream sundaes, which I got ridiculously excited about because I am a small child like that. Kat and I split one instead of buying two smaller ones 'cos we're like that. When we were about to jump in line for ice cream Kat inquires if I'd timed it on purpose so that we ended up directly behind our favorite bassist. >.< I hadn't, and it was a tense couple of minutes, but it passed without incident. Bought prom bids; tickets say it starts at 8 even though it starts at 7; this school just can't do ANYTHING right. Mr. Russo was wearing a Ramones t-shirt and this amused the heck out of me, I'm not sure why.

Tomorrow should be a pretty nothing day, since most of the school is gone since all the band and orchestra kids are going to Hershey Park, and that's almost everybody. This makes it, in essence, a two-day week: today and yesterday. Tuesday was the physics trip, which was essentially the fifth day of my weekend, since Ms Monk didn't have any work for our group, so we literally just got to dick around Six Flags for six hours. I got rather dreadfully sunburned, but it was fun. And Monday was off, of course, and I spent almost all of it hanging out by the pool doing nothing, except for the bit where we watched a movie, and the work involved in trying to keep my pants from falling off. >.< They'd been too small when I put them on Sunday afternoon after work; by the time we got back from the abandoned highway Sunday evening they were too big, and by the end of Monday they had expanded ridiculously. It was a pain in the ass. >.<

Last weekend was actually quite a lot of fun. Sunday was work, walked to Dan's, poked around the abandoned highway for four hours with Dan and Matt, watched an exceedingly abysmal movie called Gypsy 83, went to Dodge Field at eleven o'clock where we discovered an interesting sort of coiled apparatus on one of the jungle gyms that distorts sound in a most interesting way when you walk between the metal loops. Then I walked home at midnight; the town was almost completely quiet. It was really quite nice.

Saturday was mostly quiet; didn't have anything social to do; went to the bank at about 8 or 9 and found one of my mom's friend's cards still in the machine. Both parents found this hysterical. Called the woman in question and she told me hang on to it and she'd get it tomorrow; she was in the middle of playing croquet. o.O Okay then.

Friday evening watched Heathers at Dan's with Dan and Matt and Pat, then went driving around in the rain with the windows down blaring dance music. Picked up Alex (and his iPod full of techno) at Dunkin Donuts at about 10, went driving around in the rain more until we found the abandoned highway. The abandoned highway is AWESOME at night in the rain and fog. Getting through the woods in the dark to get there was a little tricky, but fun, and a very very muddy process.

Thursday Kat and I watched movies all afternoon and then went walking around town all evening, along with the entire population of MHS. Ran into a couple people we know and a whole lot of people we recognized. Met some freshman named Kaitlyn (sp?) at Dodge Field and now feel bad because I can't identify her at school because it was dark and so I don't really know what she looks like *has rather poor night vision*. Ran into Evan twice--the first time he called to us from his car and then drove away leaving us all confused; the second time (about an hour, hour and a half later) he actually stopped to talk and let us know it was him. Also ran into our favorite bassist twice--once with him entering Dodge Field just as we were leaving for the swings; the second time on GVR about an hour later. Decided that was just weird. Then decided town was too small. Then decided to go to the diner. Got home at about 12h30 and watched Kate and Leopold with Tim and Carlos until two in the morning, which was entertaining.

Oh, and I got my Grateful Dead sweatshirt. Yay!
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Now this is going to annoy the crap out of me...

Generally, American spelling is "gray" and British spelling is "grey". However, the Grateful Dead song "Touch of Grey" is spelt in the British style, despite the fact that the Dead were a very American band, and that the original manuscript of Robert Hunter's lyrics have it spelled "gray" throughout. Who decided to change it?
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One of our dippy little multiple-choice reading comprehension prepping-for-AP-test thingies in English today was the beginning of Oscar Wilde's "The Decay of Lying."

When we got the sheet the first thing I noticed was the character names, Cyril and Vivian. And I immediately went "Hey, Oscar Wilde's kids were named Cyril and Vyvyan! I wonder if this is a Wilde piece or of it's just a coincidence?" Then I started reading and it was just SO WILDEAN that I figured it had to be Wilde. Then I got to the end of the excerpt and found the line "everyone that is incapable of learning has gone into teaching," and I've definitely seen that quote a hundred times before. It's Oscar Wilde. So I asked Mrs. O. what piece it was from specifically, and when I came home I immediately tracked it down and read it. I have three volumes of Wilde's work, one at my dad's and two at my mom's, and I think I have everything he's ever written, and some stuff twice. Luckily I had "The Decay of Lying" in the book with the largest print, so that was nice.

"The Decay of Lying" is, essentially, an entertaining and prolonged dialogue about how realism is bad for art, and says everything I've said at Glyphs meetings all year except much funnier and more clearly.

In other news, have been toying with the idea of venturing further into the world of DIY fashion, and moving beyond "what can I do to this t-shirt with scissors and (sometimes) safety pins" and into the realms of dying clothing black myself because the girls-cargo-pants industry is just so not helpful in that department. It actually looks doable.

Also, I have a seven-minute-long 1969 St. Stephen on my iPod now, complete with the pipes bit at the end that usually gets left out. Yay for St. Stephen.

EDIT Just in case anybody cares, this is my 666th LJ entry.
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Yesterday we decided to listen to four St. Stephen's in a row before I could go back to painting.

In reverse chronological order--2004, 1975, 1970, and 1969, if I recall correctly.

I love that song.
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Prepping room to be painted now. This makes me happy because I actually have an inordinate amount of fun with stuff like that, probably because I am extremely hypersensitive to my environments and therefore loooooooove being able to actually control them.

Phil concert last night was fun. Other people at the concert were almost as fun to watch as concert itself, including a stoned lady named Stacey ("Spacey Stacey"... yeah, we're creative), a dude who flew over to see the show from England, and his fourteen-year-old son who SO did not want to be there. Spent much of second set watching Stacey repeatedly almost hitting British kid in the head while dancing, while kid kept having to move out of path of her arm. It was quite funny, although I should not be one to laugh at people for hitting fourteen-year-old boys in the head without realizing it, as I have been known to do the same thing. And I didn't have the excuse of being stoned.

Watching performers was quite fun too, don't get me wrong. Joan Osborne was with them and she's just cute. Keyboardist from Dark Star Orchestra was also there, this being the guy that looks like The Happiest Man In The World from the movie, both in that he actually sort of looks like him and that he's acting the exact same way. Phil looks nearly as happy in this dorky estatic sort of manner, he was just so fun to watch... I think the fact that he doesn't ever close his mouth contributed much to the "dorky" bit of that description. But Phil is still quite awesome because he's freaking 66 and he can still put on a really good show for five hours. Even if there was like two straight hours of space jam. I hate space jams. I don't think it really had to take him two bloody hours to figure out if he could get more feedback from the 4-stringed bass or the 6-stringed bass... >.< I sat down against the wall and closed my eyes and found out that I actually like the space jam a lot better that way, being able to feel it all through my back instead of listening with ears. Then they went into "Fire on the Mountain" and I'm like "ZOMG IT'S A SONG! HOLY CRAP!" >.> <.<

They did play some really good actual songs, though--"Sugaree" and "Playing in the Band" were awesome, and they also played some weird ones that I haven't heard much of but really really liked--"Pride of Kookamunga" (or however the fuck you spell that), "The Wheel," "Caution: Do Not Walk On The Tracks". Unfortunately none of my absolute favorite favorites--no Saint Stephen, no US Blues, no Truckin'. Oh well. It's not like we don't have them on recordings hundreds and hundreds of times over.

Time for dinner and painting and stuff...
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1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Lots of stuff... stayed in a youth hostel. Lived with a French family. Went lots of places I've never been before. Gone to the New York Opera. Gone to a Grateful Dead concert... sort of. Gotten a job. Withdrawn money from the bank.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't know if I made any or not; I probably did and I probably didn't keep them. I'll make more new year's resolutions in September; that's really the beginning of the year anyway.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not that I've been told about.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What countries did you visit?
France (Paris, Angers, Brittany) and Canada (Montreal).

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
Social skills.

7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Bastille Day, because it was the only day during the French trip where I was cognizant of what the date actually was.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I'm single again? >.> That should so not count as an achievement. This just wasn't a great year for achievements. Else I've forgotten them all, which is totally possible.

9. What was your biggest failure?
I still complain too much.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Illness, yes. I'm generally too lazy to do stuff that gets me injured.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Galettes. Oh my God. Closely followed by cotton candy the size of me to share with Laura, and the shirts from PirateMod.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Eliza, for coming and spending a year in a foreign country with all of us wierd people. And Corporal Oliver, for giving us the most *amazing* interview ever even though it must have been very hard to talk about.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Lots of people.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Most of it I still have. Most of what was spent went towards books. Some went towards clothing, chocolate and CDs. Now that I have a steady source of disposable income, a decent portion of which is in piles of unwanted change, quite a bit is going towards vending machines. I don't usually believe in buying consumable stuff, but it's quite annoying to carry around $1.25 entirely in NICKELS in your wallet...

And in France, it all went towards junk food. I'd consistently spend less than half of what I was given on meals, and then Brittany and I used the leftovers as our "chocolate fund". It was awesome. And I still had 75 euros left at the end of it. >.>

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
French Credit Abroad. Trip to Montreal. Going to see "Spamalot" and "Avenue Q".

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
"La Tribu de Dana"?

17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
I don't know. Possibly happier.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Sleep. Being nice to people instead of defensive. Writing. Going to the theater even though I did quite a bit of that.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Complaining, listening to other people complain, fighting with people, wasting time on the Internet.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Asleep; I have to work from 7 to 3 on Christmas Eve. x.X

22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
No.

23. How many one-night stands?
None.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
I don't watch TV.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No, I'm just more pissed off at people than I was this time last year.

26. What was the best book you read?
"Peter Pan." Seems a dippy choice coming from me, but there you go.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Spamalot. >.> Overall it's been a rather slow year for music. Oh, and "La Tribu de Dana."

28. What did you want and get?
Trip to France, trip to Montreal, POTC 3-disc edition

29. What did you want and not get?
Not telling.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Uhh... "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," in terms of film released this year. I've watched a LOT of movies this year, so I can't pick one.

31.What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Went into the city with Mom and the Wraiths and saw Avenue Q; came back home and had cake and wine with Mom and Paul and watched a movie. I was 18, go me.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Peace of mind.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Sort of lazy pirate-goth.

34. What kept you sane?
NEXT year, I get to be somewhere ELSE.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, like you didn't already know that.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Lots of them. The Vatican banning gay priests probably astonished me the most, because it makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE WHATSOEVER even from WITHIN a Catholic POV.

37. Who did you miss?
My French buddies, once I came back. Princeton friends, when I can't see them, which is most of the time. Moody when I was in France but that has more to do with Alex than with Moody, actually. Madame Scheer because she is Awesome. And it's "whom."

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Drina.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Well, I got considerably better at navigating cities, but I think that's a life skill rather than a life lesson. Erm... *ponders* I don't know.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Bah, I don't know. It's been, as usual, a very long year.
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