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| the sound of summerthe beating of the fan sounds like the churning of the lawn mower, sounds like the roar of the rain, sounds like the droning of the air conditioner; gee add a little laughter of children and sizzling barbeque, and you've got the sound of summer. yes i know, my poetry doesnt have any rhyme or meter. in fact might as well be prose. | | |
| sandwiches are life.So, after a good chunk of time doing the Quiznos thing sophomore year, ive moved on to Subway. work there is pretty decent and tolerable, and we get free lunch sandwiches. Why stay with the sub industry, you might ask. I don't know. i must naturally gravitate towards jobs that involve scrutinized food processing and floor mopping and dish washing. i will say, though, that im starting to doubt the whole Jared advertisings. i mean, ive been eating these sandwiches for more than a week, and i really dont feel any slimmer. in fact ive been sorta gaining weight. perhaps they compare fast foods to subs, in which case there may be some benefits, but going from plain homemade chinese food to italian breads, mayonaise smotherings and meat slices, not to mention the chips and sodas... Houston, we need a diet. Summer has also turned out to mean lots of down time to watch cable TV. Some of my new favorite haunts have been MTV's Made and 10 Years Younger. Both of these shows emphasize the importance of outward appearance in relation to self-confidence, and also, of taking initiatives to change yourself. Which brings me dangerously close, once again, to the "hmm how should i reshape my image for the next year," kind of thoughts and goal setting. As far as outward appearance, i realize that my style and grooming could use some improvement, but i dont feel as bad off as those middle aged women who dress in really baggy and tired clothes. i mean, i purposely wear t-shirts, and purposely have have some worn and raggedy things, because i like the look. I appreciate the youthful and carefree air that it eminates, like you just got done exploring a forest or something, i dont know. but i suppose that kind of look will become less and less appropriate as the years accumulate for me, and soon il have to wear make up and go for shopping sprees. i can, however, attribute some blame, or explanation, whatever, to my spending habits. Shopping for a whole new wardrobe for me, would be like eating glass. or atleast cutting off a finger. spending that much money at once just doesnt come naturally. ah one last thing. when they give the ppl (on the show) new clothes to wear that are supposedly more feminine and neat, i wish at least, that the show hosts could help them retain some remnants of their personality. all the new clothes that they get look the samee! or maybe personality doesnt come from the clothes themselves, but from the person, and how the person wears the clothes. yay moral extraction from the materialistic world. | | |
| it seems that summer is upon us, and i havent even had time to make a "what im going to do over the summer" list! i must have been really busy with school work, or otherwise preoccupied in the world in my head. so i have survived supposedly, the hardest year of high school without any major scars, but the question is, have i merely survived it, or have i prevailed over it (Faulkner's Nobel Prize exceptance speech)? i guess it depends on what i will consider makes a year successful, and if i didnt get pushed around too much by bad influences and trends. also, it depends on how often i stopped and appreciated and enjoyed things that i had while i had them... which i admit i did not do too much of. But hey, i think i can say i tried my best this time around, and time goes on bringing with it blessed second chances! this summer id love dearly to: read =D
work at starbucks
sleep whenever i want to (actually, develop good living habits)
volunteer at the library
get better at basketball
go jogging
draw
go to schlitterbahn
have movie marathons with friends
watch all the cool library movies
go for bike rides
sew a quilt
make some graphic designs
start the ipod case charity business
watch Death Note, Inuyasha, and Ghost in the Shell SAC 2
swim occasionally even though vincent hates swimming
actually do quiet times!!
do stuff with the dgroup =) ive already thought of all these when it was still school time, but something about lists makes daily life more dramatic and important, haha. so yea, pretty exciting. im starting to feel hot and muggy already though x0. no big vacations, i think, but hopefully the little things can hold me over, and i wont be too bored or restless. just relaax. oh yea and i have to purge my room of all the junior year junk, which should take hours and hours of back breaking labor.
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| thinking over memories is kind of like how a cow regurgitates the food in its multiple stomachs and chews on it. when we get old, we're just gunna be a whole bunch of tired out but happy skin bags of memory. all the tastes and sounds, the breezes you've felt and the people you've met and known kind of just pulsing in and out of your consciousness. think about it! everything you've done, said to someone, thought, is important.... 
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| message to everyone: i will be here the first 2 weeks of summer, contrary to what ive been saying. thats right. no Marie Walsh. i've been REJECTED!!  ahahh naomi never wins!! oh well. thats ok. im ok. i knew that letter was too thin to hold news of acceptance anyways. so now i can full steam ahead into summer job and... SAT II's? on another note. prom is coming up!! and luckily ive found the perfect hairstyle:  i think it would compliment my face shape pretty well, dont you?
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