American Gods

There's nothing better than being sucked in by a wonderful book. Cliche as it sounds, it's true. I finished Neil Gaiman's American Gods today. I'm actually supposed to be reading it for a contemporary fiction book project for English, but really it just was an excuse to get me off my ass and over to the library as I have been longing to do. Anyway, it was marvelous. It came along with the plane ticket to anywhere. A midnight trolley ride beneath the daytime America where the characters warp a blanketed reality to be stranger than fiction. Now that I've read that there's so much more I want to read by him, but I already have a super massive reading list as is.


Rabbit in Your Headlights (w/Unkle) - Radiohead

Uninteresting catching up to do.

The school year is nearing an end. We have a few months left and it feels like it barely started. I love the lack of awareness of time as you get older. Every week turns into an hour and every year is about a month. Anywho, during this point in the school year we need to register for next year's classes. I might take Journalism next school year as well as Theater II (I got a recommendation) because juniors get two electives. Oh god, I'm going to be a junior? Yeah, weird. I moved out here just before seventh grade and it sure as hell doesn't feel like it. And even so, it feels like my life didn't start until I moved out here.

Anyway, back to the registration tidbit. Journalism. The school paper sucks dick. I think I'll write short stories for it because nobody that writes the paper can write. I feel so disappointed every time I pick it up. So many of the articles I read are semi-grammatically correct versions of the essays we had to write in 3rd grade. Have the standards for such things only dropped so low lately or am I just now noticing that so many people are dumb and uninventive? We see the same regurgitation of bullying and violence in video games and how we celebrate the holidays in every issue. Is it anything to really read about issue after issue? I mean, I'd complain that the school is just wasting paper if our highschoolers weren't so genuinely interested in what the "journalists" have to say. As a result of that I'm left bitter at the recognition of the average intelligence of our school.

Onto theater. This school year theater has been pretty okay. I mean, Demain can be pretty bitchy but as long as she tells me she likes my scenes and that my acting is fabulous, I'm a-okay with that. Right now for her class we're actually writing an episode of a sitcom, much of which is based off of QC, The Odd Couple, my family, and video games. It's coming along really nicely and me and my partner, Joey, seem to be the only group getting anything done for it. Haha.

So what's been going down other than mediocre classes lately? As far as clubs and extra-curriculars go, I've been in Drama and GSA. Lately, though, I've been going to Drama less and less because they're working on the Odd Couple right now (which I didn't audition for due to grades. Had it not been for that little detail I would have been all over it seeing as how I adore the Odd Couple.) Next quarter I might audition for Anything Goes and I'll probably sing "Just a Housewife" from Working for my audition, though. I'd totally love to get the part of Hope Harcourt but I really doubt I will. But yeah, anyway, I've been showing up less and less. Why, might you ask? For two reasons: Drama Club has had meetings fewer and farther between because of rehearsals and I've been going to GSA (the Gay-Straight Alliance) more and more often. I'm discovering how much I love the crowd that goes to GSA. :)

Setting school aside entirely, I finally got to meet some kids in my neighborhood around October. Jed, cool kid. Really cool kid. Probably one of my best friends. And then we have Michael. He gets bored easily and can be slow. After that we have Bill and Ben. I swear that Bill hates me for no reason. Seriously. And Ben is a unhygienic, fairly dumb, big, gaming teddy bear. I don't talk to him a whole lot outside of school. November I asked CeeJay out and we dated for about 3 months. I broke up with him recently. That's as far I'll go on that topic. December rolling around, I fly to Minnesota to visit relatives. It was pretty boring. I got comic books for Christmas (The Sandman, the be precise ♥) and sat around shut in the house due to the minus-zero blizzard outside. That adventure was dull. So following the flight back to Vegas, I rushed to finish homework.

Since 2010 started, though, I've hardly done anything noteworthy outside of school. It's mostly just been high school politicking, seeing Jed REALLY often, hanging out with friends, drawing, and expanding my musical horizons. Oh, and I'll be 16 in two weeks. Going to see Tegan and Sara on my birthday. And with that said, I am off. I'll get back on a regular posting schedule at some point.

Peace, kids. :)

Sleepy Seven - Bonobo
Recurring - Bonobo
The Con - Tegan and Sara