Backpack's Back, Alright!

No, no. Not Backstreet. Backpack. Yes. Backpack. I went school supply shopping today. I can hardly wait for school! Oh man... I am such a nerd. I love it. I will most likely fail all my classes, but I am still excited... very excited.
I got a new backpack and it's pretty much bigger than I am. It's huge. I could sleep in it.
...Almost.

Only I can't... because all my school stuff is in it!!! That's right. Pens, pencils, markers, highlighters, paper, spiral notebooks, that portfolio thingy that I've had since freshman year that says "Follow Jesus, It Will Get You Killed." on the front.
(That quote, by the way [courtesy of James], had been quite the conversation starter... I'm pretty sure my freshman science teacher thinks I'm a nutcase. And lots of kids like to comment on it. It's amusing. I think I confuse people...)

So I went shopping, came home, labeled my classes on my dividers, packed everything away into my backpackthat'sbiggerthanIam and am now ready for school.
Pretty much, anyway.
I still have a little back-to-school clothing shopping to do, but... close enough.

Eek! I'm so dang excited!

OH! Speaking of eek... There was a spider in my house last night. Pretty much the biggest spider I have ever seen. Ever. In my ENTIRE life. It was HUGE. I was sitting here at the computer and all the sudden I heard Sarah go "WHOA!" and I turn... and there was a giant spider headed right for me. My parents were asleep. I screamed. My parents weren't asleep anymore...
Sarah told me to go get a shoe. So I did. But then I just stood there because I was too afraid of the spider to move. Sarah took the shoe, but then she didn't do anything either. Except say "Go get Dad..."
So, I went and got my dad, who was mad because I screamed and woke them up. He told me I would have to kill the spiders on my own someday. I told him the spider was the size of my hand. He didn't believe me... until he saw it. So, thankfully, he killed it. And then he went back to bed. And I went back to the computer.

And I know that has nothing whatsoever to do with school... but I just thought I'd let you know...

Beware of giant hairy spiders at night.

Romans 7:15-24

"For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.
If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?"



Wrap your head around that.

I hate Trimesters.

I hate Trimesters.

And I hate my Junior year.

And I hate Marine Biology.

And I hate that I have to take Acting 1 over again because that was the only thing available.

And I hate that I have to drop Choir because there was no room in my schedule for it.

Because of Trimesters.



I am going to burn my school down.

...I probably shouldn't publicly anounce something like that, should I?

Oh, well.

I don't care.



I was all excited for school.

Now I don't think I'm going to pass a single class.
(Except Acting 1... but that doesn't count. Because I took *and passed* that class my FRESHMAN YEAR)

Okay... So I am still excited for AP US History. And Advanced American Lit. And I'm thinking I may like Sociology after all. Even if I was hoping for Psychology, instead. And I have Dilbone for Chemistry. And Lenderman for Pre Calculus. I like them. And, since AP US History is all year long, I get to start off every single day with my favorite teacher. Mrs. Kraft is pretty much awesome. And I love English. Not even gonna lie. I garuntee I will complain about English assignments... but, secretly, I love them. Ha.

Maybe this year won't be so bad, after all.

I just will be working my arse off.
But what's new?
This is school, after all.

Then And Now...

These are a must read. No lie.

The Good Wife's Guide - Housekeeping Monthly - May 13, 1955

The Good Wife's Guide - Rewritten by Yvonne M. Prince - 2005

Laughter, The Universal Language

So last weekend, I went up to Portland and stayed with my aunt, Kumi, and uncle, Tom. We went up to Washington for a couple days and stayed in a darling little condo there on some beach. Practically nobody was at the beach. It was wonderful.
And Kumi's niece(I don't know how I'm related to her... we're probably cousins removed somehow or something...) is here from Korea. She's staying with Tom and Kumi until September, and she's been here for a while. She's taking English classes at PSU right now.
Really, she speaks English very well, but she doesn't like to. So the whole time, Tom was trying to get her and me to talk to each other, despite our little language barrier. It was tough, breaking the ice... seeing as how I don't know any Korean(or didn't, at the time) and she didn't like to speak English. So it was a slow begining.
But then, while we were at the coast, Tom and Kumi took Alex to a park for about an hour and a half. That left Yoon Young and I. Well, and an elderly couple. But we were sitting there, in the room we were sharing, and we just sort of started laughing. I don't really know why. But it was enough to finally get us talking. So she talked, in English, with me for the whole time Tom and Kumi were gone.
Before we knew it, we were talking about everything under the sun. It was way fun for me, because I learned a whole lot more about Korean culture. Heck, I even picked up a few Korean words! I've been catching myself saying "no problem" in Korean lately. And we compared all sorts of things here in America with things in Korea. We talked about friends, school, what we do in our free time, boys... Haha it was like we were lifelong friends just chatting away a storm. It was pretty neat.
And then we went and saw Lady In the Water together. It was way good. I mean, I just about wet my pants a couple times. But it was really good. I say it was way better than Signs and the Village. By a long shot. And there were people in the movie speaking Korean. Which was slightly amusing. I had no idea... but then Yoon Young leans over and she's like "They're speaking Korean!" So it was pretty cool.
And Alex... Oh my. That kid is a crack up. He adores being the center of attention. And he would do just about anything to get attention. Like when we were riding to the mall. Tom was driving, and Yoon Young, Alex, and I were sitting in the back(me in the middle). Suddenly, Alex is like "Daddy, I want to go ice skating at the mall." So Tom says okay and Alex turns to me and starts talking again.
"I'm a really good ice skater. I go really, really fast! I go ice skating a lot." I'm nodding my approval when Tom cuts in.
"Alex, you've never been ice skating." So I'm sitting there trying not to crack up, but Alex isn't done yet.
"Actually, Dad, I have." I loose it. It was just too funny. But it didn't matter, Alex didn't take offense. In fact, he was only just getting started. "Me and Maxwell play hockey all the time. And he would try to hit it and every time he missed! And I hit it every time! It was so funny..." and he dissolves into a fit of laughter, along with the rest of us in the car.
But then Tom is like "Alex, I think this is just all in your imagination."
"No Dad. It's in your imagination!" Hahaha he just had to get the last word in... Regardless of whether or not it made any sense. But it was way funny. He's the funniest four year old kid I know. No lie. I say he's going to be totally into acting someday.
It was grand.