Today was lovely
I liked today. It was sunny out. Windy too, but not in any sort of way that has any impact on anyone beyond the general "Oh, feel that cool breeze!" reaction.
School is winding down, and you can feel it in the air - at this school there has always been a general feeling of jittery unrest, there are *always* people talking (although really, based on pure decibel level alone I could call it shouting and not be exaggerating) and moving and doing, but for the past couple of days there's been something else to it. It's happier I think, mostly due to the undeniable pleasant fact that we'll be out in a two or three weeks, but I dunno I think we, as a class, have finally reached that familiar, family-level of comfort that the school had promised us we would develop when they were trying to get us to decide to come, last year. If so, it came just in time; we've had incoming juniors, and a few incoming seniors shadowing us for the past couple of days - they seem like nice kids.
The sun shinning style of good weather may just be having the effect of making me paint things with a brighter perspective though.
Still. It's nice.
What else, what else. Oh! I'm starting to get the impression I'm being ... auditioned for friendship. Which is such an odd way to put it (particularly concerning that topic), but that's how it feels. You know, 'cause I'm kind of the last person left in the school who doesn't have a group (Whee, I'm a lone wolf -- I'm too cool for the packs! Except, you know, not so much...) of people, a fact all of the groups recognize on some level I think. This may just be me talking crazy (which wouldn't be unheard of, really), but I've always noticed that when it comes down to those sort of things, in school when you do have the groups of friends, the cliques, while they are, by definition, sort of ... clannish and closed off - they always do eagerly welcome the new people they decide worthy. Which, okay, yes obviously if you and your friends find someone just like you, who shares your interests and whose company you enjoy you're obviously going to welcome them with open arms. But. In some ways it kind of seems like it's also something else to it, you know, like the safety in numbers thing factors in to it too. So, like, when there's fresh meat and you can stake you claim to it you do ... because you don't want anyone else have it.
Okay, and now I'm thinking of the seagulls from Finding Nemo that go, "Mine! Mine! Mine!" Etc.
Clearly I'm thinking far too hard about this (this is why you don't have any friends, you big dork). The fact of the matter is I've suddenly got a hell of a lot more people making a point to say hi to me than I did two days ago so ... yay!
Actually, one of the girls, her name is Kelsey, reminds me of Gal, like, *a lot*, and the fact that she seems to think I'm terrified of her amuses me greatly.
I suppose this as good a spot as any to link to a fairly amusing video that has me in it, that features Kelsey and the other friendly girls of nice-ness, which is over here, on MySpace (ugh, that site is like a necessary evil for high school kids today). There's no sound or anything, and I'm in it for a total of ten seconds at the most (I'm the girl in the striped shirt, for the record), but still. See if you can spot the reason why this girl reminds me of Gal.
So, yes. Today was good.
But really, how could a day where you're walking outside in the sunshine, surronded by people who if not your friends are close enough to it, and as a light breeze is blowing, you turn around just in time to hear two girls singing their hearts out to La Vie Boheme, right at the mutual masturbation part be anything *but* good?
Comment me, and...
1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal so you can do the same for other people.
School is winding down, and you can feel it in the air - at this school there has always been a general feeling of jittery unrest, there are *always* people talking (although really, based on pure decibel level alone I could call it shouting and not be exaggerating) and moving and doing, but for the past couple of days there's been something else to it. It's happier I think, mostly due to the undeniable pleasant fact that we'll be out in a two or three weeks, but I dunno I think we, as a class, have finally reached that familiar, family-level of comfort that the school had promised us we would develop when they were trying to get us to decide to come, last year. If so, it came just in time; we've had incoming juniors, and a few incoming seniors shadowing us for the past couple of days - they seem like nice kids.
The sun shinning style of good weather may just be having the effect of making me paint things with a brighter perspective though.
Still. It's nice.
What else, what else. Oh! I'm starting to get the impression I'm being ... auditioned for friendship. Which is such an odd way to put it (particularly concerning that topic), but that's how it feels. You know, 'cause I'm kind of the last person left in the school who doesn't have a group (Whee, I'm a lone wolf -- I'm too cool for the packs! Except, you know, not so much...) of people, a fact all of the groups recognize on some level I think. This may just be me talking crazy (which wouldn't be unheard of, really), but I've always noticed that when it comes down to those sort of things, in school when you do have the groups of friends, the cliques, while they are, by definition, sort of ... clannish and closed off - they always do eagerly welcome the new people they decide worthy. Which, okay, yes obviously if you and your friends find someone just like you, who shares your interests and whose company you enjoy you're obviously going to welcome them with open arms. But. In some ways it kind of seems like it's also something else to it, you know, like the safety in numbers thing factors in to it too. So, like, when there's fresh meat and you can stake you claim to it you do ... because you don't want anyone else have it.
Okay, and now I'm thinking of the seagulls from Finding Nemo that go, "Mine! Mine! Mine!" Etc.
Clearly I'm thinking far too hard about this (this is why you don't have any friends, you big dork). The fact of the matter is I've suddenly got a hell of a lot more people making a point to say hi to me than I did two days ago so ... yay!
Actually, one of the girls, her name is Kelsey, reminds me of Gal, like, *a lot*, and the fact that she seems to think I'm terrified of her amuses me greatly.
I suppose this as good a spot as any to link to a fairly amusing video that has me in it, that features Kelsey and the other friendly girls of nice-ness, which is over here, on MySpace (ugh, that site is like a necessary evil for high school kids today). There's no sound or anything, and I'm in it for a total of ten seconds at the most (I'm the girl in the striped shirt, for the record), but still. See if you can spot the reason why this girl reminds me of Gal.
So, yes. Today was good.
But really, how could a day where you're walking outside in the sunshine, surronded by people who if not your friends are close enough to it, and as a light breeze is blowing, you turn around just in time to hear two girls singing their hearts out to La Vie Boheme, right at the mutual masturbation part be anything *but* good?
Comment me, and...
1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal so you can do the same for other people.