no update long time

a lot has gone by since the last update, huh?

well for starters, exams came and left in the blink of an eye. the grades weren't dreadful, and i really did get a pleasant surprise from my above-average History grade, but overall i didn't do spectacularly. English, bah, i never do well on that. Precalc, okay. could have done better, but i'm not hating on myself. i only wish that Mr. P had noticed the comment i wrote about bacon when i couldn't analyze a graph properly. Mandarin was fine as usual, but i think i did better last year (and the year before that, and the year before that). Biology just pisses me off. it's the one class i think i can work long and hard at and still not achieve any results. i wish that man would just cut me some slack sometimes.

the day after came the SAT. man do i think i did poorly on that test. it didn't help that when i got home and told my sister that i thought the test went badly she informed me that the practice tests i had been taking were generally easier than the actual SAT. but whatever. at least i had that off my back.

from there on out was great, though! i spent a week in Laredo, Texas to do some good, hard work and spend some quality time with some fellow classmates and teachers of mine/the objects of some minor obsessions. the people there were generally really kind and fun, with a few "unholy" acceptions and snide remarks. staying at a church was good for me, too; it was nice to get at least partially back in touch with my faith, and provided some much-needed comfort while watching The Ring, knowing that God wouldn't kill me in his house. one thing i deeply miss about Laredo was that the weather was amazing. reaching nearly ninety degrees on several occasions, it was nice to feel the sun on my back and actually sweat a little (and i usually hate sweating). the nights were cool and clear, and allowed for a little star gazing, a rare treat for me. other than almost getting detained by homeland security at the airport on the ride home, it was an excellent trip. being back in cold, television-and-internet-filled New York is a little sad, but it was nice to sleep in my own bed. the sixteen uninterrupted hours of sleep i got upon returning felt so good.

today i ate one package of chocolate, read two manga, watched one episode of Important Things with Demitri Martin, three episodes of Making Fiends, and four episodes of Jon & Kate Plus Eight. yup, things are back to their usual couch-potato-y state. Seufs would be ashamed.

tomorrow i leave for college visits with my mom. i'm thankful that someone cares about my future enough to drag me through this process (it's probably largely because she's made it clear that she wants to live with me when she's old, but i'll take what i can get). i don't actually know all the colleges we're going to, but i'm heading up north and will be back in a little under a week, in time for school to start again. (ick.) i haven't met with the school's college advisor yet, but i dropped off her common app assignment and letter to her the day before break started. hopefully she got to reading them and doesn't think i am too much of a weirdo, although a little bit would be good and accurate. i did mention steampunk and my fear of catfish, after all.