myrrhcat

Today our school had this assembly on "cyberbullying." This short fat guy came in, pulled us out of our second and third period classes, and we got to sit in the gym for an hour and a half listening to him narrate his PowerPoint presentation. I've got to say, it was one of the worst assemblies I've ever had to attend. Then again, it did provide some conversation fodder for the rest of the day.

The PowerPoint was especially terrible because most of it was misspelled and weirdly worded. If you're trying to be serious, having the word "HATRID" emblazoned across the top of your PowerPoint slide doesn't really help. Also, a lot of his "can't"s and "don't"s were missing apostrophes. It was just a train wreck. But the actual content of the presentation was pretty stupid, too. It completely missed the mark.

Besides failing to connect with teenagers who actually use technology (using such phrases as "phone text messages"- as if there's any other kind!) a lot of what the guy was trying to say just didn't make any sense. There are people these days who want to distinguish between face-to-face bullying and "cyberbullying" (that's a great buzzword because, OMG, kids these days are so high-tech! and tuned in to the VIRTUAL WORLD!) but the fact is, it doesn't matter whether you're saying something to someone's face or using technology to do it. It's the same thing.

I went shopping with my mom today. We were supposed to get a dress for me to wear to the football dinner next week, but I really didn't want to. I mean, I like buying clothes, but not with my parents. Besides, I have enough dresses; my mom seems to think that none of mine are "nice" enough. Anyway, she was also trying to find an outfit for herself to wear to this important dinner on Friday. I've got to say, my mom's bad taste in clothing combined with the terrible selection in the Macy's plus-size department made for a catastrophe of a shopping trip.

It really isn't fair that all the clothes there look matronly and terrible. It's like they're telling my mom that it's okay to wear silk leisure jackets with sheer sleeves. Don't plus-size women deserve non-awful clothing, too?

It's kinda hilarious, because there haven't been any outbreaks around here, but our school still has all these SWINE FLU!!! memos taped up around the halls.
Yeah. I don't believe in swine flu.

So, it's been a while since I last updated. Almost a month, in fact. Let's get down to business.

My last entry was actually about me being really fucking pissed off at Jordan, but everyone else seems to have forgotten what he did. Even the other girls involved are talking to him again. It's fucking bizarre. I guess he's just too charming or something, or he's giving off some kind of attractive douchebag pheromone, because honestly, I seem to be the only one who still wants to break his face.
I mean, I don't care if the others forgive him. I never will.
But anyway, on to happier things.

I turned 16 on the 14th... happy birthday me!!!
I still have to have my sweet 16, but that'll probably happen next month.
I have to ask all the people I'm inviting when they're free.
Um, and last week was spring break, so we went on a cruise...
I'll just break that down day-by-day.

( CRUISE TALES )

So, that's what's been up. Yeah.

Ha. Yeah. Great weekend...
not so great Monday.
I'm typing this in History class on a keyboard that has no Enter key.
But, god.
I am going to lose a friend today.
I don't know which it'll be, but I guarantee, I am going to lose a friend.
Someone is lying to me.
And I don't know who.
It's very confusing.
Augh.
FML.

coming soon, from James Patterson

...Okay, not really.
My life is not the back jacket of a mystery novel, as Rosalie so hilariously pointed out.
But seriously, all this drama is really going down.
I used to pride myself on never being a part of any drama in Pequannock, but I guess that time is over.
It's more complicated than a doily.
And,  I don't know. What I thought was the best thing to happen to me in years ended up going all sideways and bad.

I had a great weekend.
I had a great weekend.
I had a great weekend.
I had a great weekend.
I had a great weekend.
I had a great weekend.
I had a great weekend.
I had a great weekend.
I had a great weekend.
I had a great weekend.
I HAD A GREAT WEEKEND.
I HAD A GREAT WEEKEND.
I HAD A GREAT WEEKEND.
I HAD A GREAT WEEKEND.

Ask me how my weekend was.

Confessionnnns. Again. I keep doing this. Ha. I have no luck with boys.
But I'm happier now.
I like people to know how I feel about them. :)

I went to el_platanator 's Rock Band party on Friday. IT WAS INSANE.
Even at the end. Haha. I love you Hannah.
And, um... Oh, guess what my big Sweet 16 present is?
A CRUISE TO THE BAHAMAS!!!!
I was telling everyone it was to Bermuda, because I always get those two confused...
It's gonna be so fun, though.
I'm gonna end up getting a tan ><
I hate being tan, but I hate wearing sunscreen even more.

Hopefully, my future class ring! Er, except instead of "School's Initials Here" it would hopefully be PTHS. I love it, you can design your own custom ring. And this particular one would only cost 300 dollars. Haha. Although it would be kinda cool to run around with a platinum diamond-studded bling ring all junior year. Imagine punching people while wearing one of those things.

My parents might have read the last entry I posted. I mean, I don't really have evidence that they did, but I wouldn't be surprised, since they're randomly all OKAY WE NEED TO FIX OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. But, you know. Whatevs. Whatevs.

I made food last night for my fams! Yay! I pretty much have never done that. And besides, whenever I try to make anything (usually baking, so I've never really cooked dinner before) my mom insists on like, hovering around and criticizing everything I do. So I was like, leave. No hanging around. I made cold peanut curry noodles... they were supposed to be udon, but ShopRite didn't have udon. But they came out really good anyway. It was awesome.

Um, what else. Cheerleading? The season's almost over. *SINGLE TEAR* but the coaches are talking about signups for cheer camp over the summer, so that's exciting. Can't wait to go. And then my... friend, Tom, is making this movie with my friend Jianna, and they were all, hey, you should be in it. Soooooo I am. I'm playing a stereotypical goth girl. Yay.

What a weird day. They had the 4 Years and Beyond thing at school, where 8th graders come in and there's a table for every club... as the editor, I was supposed to be representing the newspaper, but that was boring as hell so I went to hang out with Video Game Club instead. And of course, as soon as I left, a bunch of people went over to the newspaper table. I think I'm bad luck or something, but you know, whatever. Actually, after school today was really fun, me and Dave, Amanda, and Steph P. had a rave in the girls' bathroom, and me and Steph decided that she would have to be the obligatory wheelchair kid from now on. Good times.

I killed my computer today.

I was right here, on LiveJournal, when a blank PDF file opened in a new tab. It was from fsdifdfhnsgb.com or some shit like that. So I closed the tab, cleared my internet data, and decided to let the internet chill for a while.

I opened The Sims, and got the Blue Screen of Death... so I started the computer back up. And all these weird prompt boxes opened up on the screen, then closed. I got a little weirded out and tried opening Control Panel to do System Restore. Well, instead of Control Panel, I got another vanishing black box. I tried to log out and got another Blue Screen of Death.

I started the computer up yet again. When I tried to log on... Blue Screen of Death.

So I called my dad, and he looked at it, and then he was all, yep, you killed it. So he spent tonight uninstalling and reinstalling Windows. And well. I basically have a fresh clean machine now. Thankfully I managed to save all my files. Hahhhh. Good times.

Today was a weird day... like, a really fucking EXTREMELY WEIRD DAY... so weird, I feel like just spamming the words "WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD" over and over again... I won't do it here, but I'm doing it in my head. Because seriously: REALLY FUCKING WEIRD DAY.

There really is nothing else to talk about. The weirdness is eating my brain.

59 college emails to date, and here is a quote from the University of Miami website:

"I know that sounds cliche and what every college campus guide says but, in the most honest terms, UM is moving up the ranks in the national education system scale. We have gone from 65 to 52 in the 7 short years President Shalala has been president of this school."

"in the 7 short years President Shalala has been president of this school."

"the 7 short years President Shalala has been president"

"years President Shalala has been"

"President Shalala"

PRESIDENT SHALALA

Uh, so... yeah. I think I may have to go to the University of Miami, just because of that.

Nah. Not really interested, based on what I've seen so far. Looking through the other emails? Tulane seems like a pretty sweet place. It's in New Orleans, so no lack of French-related opportunities, and besides that, Jerry Springer graduated from there. That's how you know it's classy.

I'm really psyched for Movie Night on Friday. I love my friends. They rock.

Also, I'm writing a new short story. Check out what I have so far on pths_nano .

So far, I've gotten interest emails from exactly 30 colleges, and it's kinda nice. Makes me feel smart, even if it's just the PSAT scores. I even got NYU! Not planning to go there, though. And seriously, what the hell is a "liberal arts curriculum"? The Wikipedia article on it is... vague.

I thought I would have more to talk about. I dunno. Not a lot of cheering lately,  but I got my cheer pictures back today... maybe I'll post those up. But it's like, has my life really been that uneventful? In theory, I should have tons to talk about. Social life, love life, academic life, family life... Meh. It all bores me.

Obligatory Obama-is-president entry. Yeah. It was really awesome. I watched the inauguration on the TVs in the cafeteria during lunch. Inaugurations are boring and overly religious, but Obama being president is cool. I thought it would feel weirder for Bush to not be president anymore, but I guess it either hasn't sunk in yet or I've already gotten used to the idea over the past month.

It's been an interesting week. Parents have been acting weird as of late. They're seeing problems that aren't there. Been an interesting week socially, romance-wise, and of course cheerleading. We lost a wrestling match but we won a girls' basketball game. The basketball game was really intense. We went into double overtime, and finally we won at the end of the second extra period. Also, one of the girls on the visiting team broke her nose and started spurting blood all over the gym floor.

And, um, what else... Movie Night on Saturday was awesome. We watched The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Machine Girl... The Machine Girl is an AWESOME movie, hilarious Japanese camp with fountains of pressurized fake blood and some really ridiculously gory and disgusting scenes... also the incredible hotness of debut Japanese actor Nobuhiro "Nobu" Nishihara... I made an icon of him, I'll put it up soon. My uncle, who worked on the team that made the movie, said that, by the request of me and my friends, he may be able to get Nobu a starring role in a werewolf movie. I sure as hell hope so.

Things have been going pretty great lately. I got a 100 on my Chem test! That, like, never happens... in case you guys haven't been paying attention, I'm usually kinda terrible at Chem. Mainly because I never pay attention, because it's boring as hell, and partly to spite my evil teacher. But it's nice to not fail a test. And get a higher grade than certain FRICKIN' GENIUSES. And my parents are taking me to my favorite restaurant to celebrate. Yay!

Cheerleading has been going well, too. We had our first wrestling match and our first basketball game. And both were totally awesome. (IRL friends- wrestling match on Wednesday at 7- please come!)

Basically, everything is great. I've pretty much got over most of the shittiness I've had to deal with. Everything is just... nice.

Ahh. Happy New Year. I'm feeling much better now, because... SHOPPING!

WARNING: ENTERING STEREOTYPICALLY GIRLY ENTRY TERRITORY

So first we hit Hot Topic. Yay! I love Hot Topic! And I spent the gift card that LUCIA, WHO IS REALLY AWESOME,gave me. Between that and our frequent buyer discount and the fact that there was this huge clearance sale going on, I got a white petticoat and two shirts (one of which was a Mindless Self Indulgence shirt) for A DOLLAR EACH. That was fucking awesome. Also, other awesome things happened there.

Uh, and then we went to this new store called Love Culture that all the cheerleaders were raving about and we go in there and it's like, World Of Plaid. No joking. Everything in there was just, plaid, and plaid, and more plaid. Except the things I bought... camisoles, cool leggings, and TURQUOISE LEGWARMERS. on CLEARANCE. holy SHIV.

And then we went to... Barnes and Noble! And I bought books. I would tell you more about those books, but they're not important, because...
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Well, it's January 2009, woooo. And of course I came into it sleepy and in a rather bad mood, I had been hoping to at least be doing something when the new year came in, like being at a party or actually THROWING a party, or even if I was just at home I wanted to do something cool when 2009 hit but there aren't really any cool things I could be doing. Or, you know, I couldn't think of them. So that was entirely pleasant, right?

Plus my parents have been extra bitchy lately, they act like they're mortally wounded every time I forget to wash a dish or something.

Ughhhh. Oh god. I just got back from the ARCHDEMON of FAMILY PARTIES. Like sereousllkytwaert, I can't even type, it's horrible, SEVEN HOURS of SITTING ON THE COUCH and WATCHING BAD TV while MY INCREDIBLY LARGE EXTENDED FAMILY sits at A TABLE and EATS PORK CHOPS and PLAYS SCATTERGORIES and TALKS about ABSOLUTELY NOTHING and GIVES ME CRAPPY PRESENTS like SCARVES and PAJAMAS while my PLETHORA OF SMALL COUSINS act really ANNOYING and HOOOOOOLY CRAP.

Uh... So... Christmas... That family party was so horrible, I nearly forgot it was Christmas. I COULD have been at home playing with my COOL PRESENTS that I was going to tell you about, but now I'm really tired and I think I'm going to pass out. I HATE FAMILY PARTIES.