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My manner and countenance have greatly improved, and I think this may be due in part to the way I spent my Saturday. Let's see, I was totally relaxed and woke up to find my family making breakfast and heading off to JCPenney's. I ate and went with them on what turned out to be a very advantageous trip. My dad and brothers were looking for suits for the wedding and all sorts of sales were going on, so I checked out some of the clothes. I actually found some stuff that I liked and most of it was half price. Score! I also shopped for tshirts for Eli since he'll be ditching the dress code next year. This one shirt had a picture of donut with legs and arms around the corner from policemen and it said, "I'm hiding from the cops." It made me giggle. Then later it turned out that Eli had a baseball game in Fulton and we would be going over to Clay. Chicken Giardino and Pasta Fagioli from Olive Garden! And The Perfect copy of Pride and Prejudice that I have been searching for was at Barnes and Noble. Get this- Hardcover, Dark green, ribbon bookmark, and the style of grammar that I prefer for this book, with single quotation marks instead of double and Mr and Mrs instead of Mr. and Mrs. OMG I'm such a nerd. Sometime in the middle of the day I began to read Haveli, which is a medium-sized novel. It was really fascinating so I kept reading until I was too tired to keep my eyes open and then finished it the next morning. The themes were comparable to the book Princess, but set in a different country. It's been a while since I've read that obsessively, and it felt good to know that I could still do it. Sunday I hung out with Sonya after church and then I ate more donuts than Joel at youth center. Actually, we'll never know.
Today was all right, I was tired and felt really grouchy towards Mr Dristle first period, and generally cynical, but then it picked up as I went from class to class with yearbooks etc. I sort of felt like I had excess energy, even though I stayed up late working on English last night. After school we checked out Chamber results, and I'm happy about the group of girls next year, they're cool. I'm reserving judgment on the guys' section, because I really don't know much about the voices of anyone but the current chamber members. Joel, I was complaining to my mom about someones attitude, and she said that the way this person acted probably wouldn't affect me if I hadn't once held this person in high esteem myself. Uggh I hate when she's right. So I withdraw my judgments, but feel free to say anything about this person in front of me because it certainly won't offend me. Enough of that.
My goals for the summer: Learn how to type skilfully
Get comfortable with solfege
Explore my singing voice
READ. A lot.
Actively pursue colleges.
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