May 24, 2005 19:06
i am forcing nostalgia onto myself. for the sake of the pending graduation. bear with me.
kindergarten: rockbridge elementary. my favorite dress that made me look like a pilgrim. i sold a ton of wallpaper.
1st grade: nesbit. miss gerke {one of my favorite teachers ever}. reading the rainbow fish. jami mathewson, kevin fuller, daniel garcia, and i wrote stories. one won an award.
2nd grade: i played the lion in a play about a lion and a mouse. people laughed a lot, and i thought i was freaking hilarious. my parents got married, and i was there.
3rd grade: miss callis. i found myself having true respect for a teacher because she was hard.
4th grade: miss youngers. got in trouble for causing a raucus. a little bitchy girl clawed the hell out of my arm. i moved to mountain park. lily, david lukens, and leland cook were my first friends. followed closely by anna from down the street and rikki johnson from the street over.
5th grade: in love with tyler wright. found out that 5th grade guys really liked [my] boobs. went to WAY too many churches that tried to set me on the right path from my imminent damnation. went to my mom's best friend's place in virginia for a week over the summer.
6th grade: trickum. two kids kept teasing me (ALL YEAR) because i was freaked out by the fact that mayans would bury their dead after they pulled their brains out of their nostrils. lily and i became best friends. went to pennsylvania for the first time that summer.
7th grade: i dated josh moore. lily loved peter. i met mike that summer.
8th grade: mike consumed my head. i had miss morris, another excellent teacher. angela zachman and i were close, and we teased peter.
9th grade: parkview. tripped on the first day, coming into the building, in front of all the seniors. homecoming. shama, nunya, lily and i became really close. lisa came from nebraska. she and i also got really close. i thought mike and i were going to get married.
10th grade: THE GROUP. every freaking weekend, i was hanging out with all or some of the group. michael meeks and i got super close. mike and i broke it off. the world was spinning, and i finally found my feet over the summer. i began to like peter somewhere in there. lisa and lily went to the outerbanks with me. i was an emotional basket case inside, and a robot on the outside.
11th grade: i left notes for meeks every day until spring in language arts. then, i was a REAL jerk. lily and i pulled apart. shama and i got closer. the group slowly, but surely, disintegrated. i went to savannah with shama. i text messaged peter way more than i should have, because i didn't know how much it cost.
12th grade: i got rides from peter. i started really liking peter. i [finally!]started dating peter. shama and i got so close, she basically lives over here and i over there. i became better friends with catie, shai, and cameron...lily and i completely nixed our friendship. at least, to the degree that it once was. lindsey and i also got closer. my parents gave me more independence. i graduated.
here we are, up to speed, i suppose.
it's funny. lately, all i want to do is cry, and i have nothing to cry about. i should be happy. but i'm kind of upset. a lot.
also, it seems that i take things too seriously. same old song.
i want to be more laid back, much less emotional, and not as easily torn apart. like, take a robot, an ewok, and the joy of 'in the summertime' by mungo jerry, and place into a blender. pour into a happy glass with a tiny umbrella. that's what i want to be. transform me!
and, i bought the ben folds five CD called 'the unauthorized biograophy of reinhold messner'. i enjoy it.