i just put in a ten-hour day, and my feet and legs feel like they're 114 years old.  on the plus side, i got 2 hours overtime and i was front-end supervisor.  i get to do that all this week. :)

reo speedwagon concert was absolutely amazing! the guy who opened for them, ryan powers, was good too.  he's electric-acoustic, which i really like.  i got to meet him.  however, the couple in front of whit and i were the worst dancers ever.

this stupid english project... joel, parker, tim, i have no idea when this is going to get done.  i work 12-7 tomorrow, so i have zero time.  joel- the basic theme of it is innocence lost, so go where-ever that leads you song-wise.  since i've got the pictures, i suppose i'll just do the meaning for each one too; that's the only way that'll work.  parker-i kind of have an idea for a flyer; i can e-mail this picture to you later to use as a backdrop...i dunno..

   10,000 Maniacs did a song called "Hey Jack Kerouac." It's not very good.  But relating to Jack, I finished my English paper, and it's only 9:00.  I even did a little bit of it last night.  I'm kinda proud of myself.  I went a little over the three pages, but oh well.  I figure that since it had to be double spaced, I shouldn't worry, because it's really not an excess of information or anything.

   Some crazy lady chewed my out at work today and then complained to Scott (the manager.) Apparently i threw her apples on the belt.  she had a fit and yelled that she didn't want them because "that bruises the produce!"  even her husband was rolling his eyes behind her back.  what a moron.  1. apples aren't flat, so they will make some noise when they fall to the bottom of the bag onto the belt. 2.  they're apples! they don't exactly bruise easily. 3. nevermind when they got thrown into bins when they were picked, dumped onto a belt, jostled in the truck, and dumped into the sale bins.  if that didnt bruise them, i don't think i 1" fall to the belt at my register will bruise them.  what really got me was that even her husband thought she was being stupid.

   very possibly going to an REO Speedwagon concert in March!!

I finally actually got some hours this week.  about 14, but that's good for me.  i normally get next to nothing.  still, after taxes and union dues/intro fee/arrears, i should still have at least $60.  Tomorrow 11:45-6, Friday 4:30-8:30, Saturday 12-4.  I'd rather work during the week, but I suppose beggars can't be choosers.

Went out last night with my sister and my mom-got some shirts; went to indy today.  children's museum-for courtney's birthday, then the the castleton square mall.  i found the prettiest dress at deb; whitnie and i were trying dresses on.   its cream with a little bit of gold detailing and the tiniest, tinest bit of pink detailing.  not that you guys care, i know, lol.  it was pretty though.

ugh, i just remembered that i need to do that stupid english paper.  i probably should start on it tonight, because i'll regret it tomorrow if i don't, but i really don't feel like it.  maybe i'll go at least try to, though.

my mind just won't shut up today.  sometimes i wish i could just be mindless and sit in front of the t.v.  hmm.

made evers get a gamespot account.  YellowTwisty.

i feel like i have a million things to say, but they won't make a neat little line in my head, so i can't write them out.  that frustrates me.

so- my weekend looks to be exciting.  english paper, basket for fine arts, a six dollar and fifty-seven cent paycheck.  this is the first weekend i havent had anything planned for awhile.  i hate just idling.

i feel like doing something new.  i love a taste of risk.

   I was reading some online undergraduate newspaper by Penn U and came across an article about Google, and Google Earth, so I decided to investigate.  GPS systems are amazing, are they not?  Eerily stalkerish, yes, but still!  My dad was amazed and kinda took the computer away from me and announced that he was going to look for crop circles.  That didn't last long, lol.  You can even see things like swimming pools and school bus(s)es!

   The ski trip was so much fun.  but i'm paying for it now.  every part of my body hurts so much.  i was liberally applying icyhot everywhere and noticed that my ribs hurt an awful lot, and i looked, and they're bruised, lol. but at least it's slightly; not purple or anything. ...and before you ask brett, no, they do not hurt; that is the exception.  i think the biggest factor for my soreness was when colin just took me out.  thank you colin, haha.  i really had a lot of fun though.

   I finally got my stupid letterman jacket in today.  i'll sew the patches and stuff on tomorrow after school at my grandmas, because i just dont feel like dragging out and messing with my own sewing machine.  i started to do it by hand, but it was too difficult to do it and keep the patch in place.  i kind of feel bad though, because the back says "maconquah band," and i don't know if i'm going to stay in marching band next year.  oh well.

   on a high note, i got girl scout cookies today!  my very own box of caramel delights!

   i really need to start caring about school more.  i want to, i really do, but it's just lost all appeal to me.  academics used to be so important to me, but i'm just so burnt out now.  my collective gpa just isn't what i want it to be, but instead of it being a "slack off first couple years then buckle down thing", it's that i cared more the first 2 years, and now i just don't.  i try to be interested, and i try to make an effort to pay attention, but i just don't seem to be able to anymore.  i like learning, as queer as that sounds, but my interest just hasn't been sparked, especially this summer.  i just can't see how much this will matter later.  i know it will- college, blah blah blah, but maybe if we didn't have to waste our time with all these stupid standards and standardized testing.  i'd rather be learning on my own.  so who else is in a school-slump?  and not those lazy people who have never cared and don't want to, either- that's not what i mean.

   i've been thinking, and i think that we all need to stop whining so much and just enjoy things, myself included.  yes, i know, things don't always work out in our favor, but deal with it, because most of the time, there is no terrible damage, and things are still just fine.  things are just better when you wake up and choose to be chipper.  that's a fantastic word.  i was bored and reading old posts on LJ, and geez, you'd think we lived in some terrible war-torn, dictatorial, starving, damned-to-hell country where the sun never shines.  haha, we don't.  so i've resolved to go back to my optimistic ways.  things just are so much better that way, agree?

   so i've very nearly abandoned LJ, because i'm addicted to gamespot, and almost all the people i care about have active accounts here.

   i'm excited about skiing on sunday with you guys!  i've never skiied before, so i'm wondering how long it'll take me to pick it up.  i borrowed some carhartt ski coverall/overall things from aly.  i tried them on, they're a bit big on me, i feel like a duck or something.

   in a much better mood the past.. since tuesday night, thanks to a talk.  made me see that things are just fine; so i felt immensely better.  thank you.

   i'm feeling creative, or at least like doing something productive, and i hate going to bed feeling unaccomplished, so i'll go do something.

   ciao

I am so proud of myself. i made my own banner.  the graphic isn't my own, that would've taken me far far too long.  it took me long enough to decide on how to make it so that i could see what i wanted to of the graphic and text.  overall, i'm pleased.  what think?

so i'm going to ask my mom tonight if she'll let me go on the ski trip thing, after i call devin/lisa.  i'm really hoping she'll let me go, it's only a day trip, and i'm the one paying for it, and all you guys are relatively safe, right?

thank you for the banners, joel!  i chose the c&c one, but i also really liked the beatles one too, but i thought it looked a little stretched.