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Hmmm I'm really happy right now. Feeling giddy even- GIDDY! I got a new phone, its super, a camera phone and all. Im supposed to spend the night with kate for like 3 nights so that her parents can go out of town. Sounds like fun but i'll have to get my parents loaded for them to agree, i'll work my magic, though, like always. My mom had teeth pulled and is definitely a whiney little bitch of a patient when she's in pain. I worked with this kid named Keith today. I like him alot, he's SO nice. Really playful, not in a flirty way i don't think like in a i have fun doing what i do kinda way. He went to William and Mary but is taking a year off to do the australia thing. Sounds cool to me but im worried about his lack of school. He was telling me about this party that he went to at this girl's house whose parents are multimillionaires. Where did they get their money, you may ask? Well they manufactured this juice in a sno-cone looking dispenser that when refrigerated turns into Jell-o shots. Keith brought up a point besides "WEIRD! i didn't realize there was that much money in the jello shot industryl," and that would be "wouldn't you feel guilty every day because jello shots are basically a ploy to get underage kids totally wasted?" Its true, like every time you heard a story about an underage driver getting killed in a drunk driving accident that thought, "i killed him" would run through your head. or mine at least. So Ron Aaron, my good friend called me up the other day to ask if i could come to be a hostess kinda gal today for classes of '83- '85 at keystone. I arrived and it was amazing seeing all these grown up keystone nerds like me! There was this wonderful guy who was obviously the cut up in the class, he was of course, still making silly stupid jokes. During a tour some guy goes "hey guys do you remember being in mr. bates' (now mrs turner's) room and jeff was smoking grass in the bathroom and we were all like jeff you dumbass we can smell that!!" And then we all met up in the theatre and the cut up guy was like "keystone did so much for me, it really taught me about life. I remember coming from public school in 6th grade and coming home the first day and just bawling to my mom and telling her that i already had homework and i hated keystone and i wasn't going to make it. But i made it and it got a little easier and i worked at it and i tried every day. And then i learned how to cheat." Typical keystone. I loved it. I loved his frankness and his sincerity too. Then mr. mcintosh was telling about the golf fundraiser and he asked if they ever did any selling stuff door to door. And that guy goes "bongs. We sold bongs." I really just wanted to talk to him for hours. Im sure he had some great stories. Everyone really seemed worried about keystone loosing its quirkiness amongst all the serious academics. I think we've lost a little but we still are one of the only schools in which it is cool to be smart and a little loser-ish. We still have a lot of that same keystone, quirky flare. And for that i am lucky. It hit me all of a sudden: keystone has made me who i am and i love who i am. Yeah, i've had some tough times there but i wouldn't trade my experiences there for anything in this world. I honestly can't put into words what a huge, important part of my life keystone is. It scared me too, to think that 20 years could pass before i see some of my compatriots again. I mean i'll stay close to some of them but then there will be the ones who i really won't keep in touch with im sad to say. Not that i don't want to, but it just seems unlikely that those who i don't necessarily talk to on a daily basis will remain close to me after we graduate. I don't know. It was definitely trippy, in a good way but also in a scary way. Our lasts are coming up, our last first day of school at keystone, our last home game, our last schwab essay (i'm sure we won't be too tired of those!), our last prom, there are so many and it scares the shit out of me.