im having a partee, on new years eve and youre invited=]

Wow, it's been 9 days since i last posted. Time for an update, then? Alright well school is really boring. Periods one through four are sleepy time and then photography & lunch go by so fast and then 2 more periods of sleep.

I joined Drama Club..AND I signed up to see Wicked in December, with 39 other drama club members who like Wicked. Now I'm going in December, and January 3rd. It's gonna be awesome, and give me a chance to shmooze with drama club kids. And I attended a Stage Crew meeting, maybe i'll attend a few more but i really don't know about it. I'll definetly stick around longer than last year.  And i signed up for photography club, but who knows if it'll ever happen.

Oh, speaking of Photography, ( did anyone say my favorite pinhole camera photos? )
i want a boy. a cute one. not desperate, though.
</whiny child with hormones>

I babysat last night with Becca. Didn't have to do much, except bathe 'em and put 'em to sleep. Then me and Becca ate their food and watched west side story. Love that movie.

These 2, verrry very old wrinkly hispanic dudes were checking me out today. It was gross.

Now I've gotta eat. I'm gonna go. Hopefully this satisfies my hunger for an update.

Oh, I read/finished such a cute book the other day. It's called Just Friends by Norma Klein. It was so cute, I literally said "Aww!" at the end. I also read Girl, Interrupted a couple days ago and was disapointed.

Agh, now I really have to go. Later kids.

erm hi. 
i hate school.
    periods one through four are sleep through's, but then i have photography and lunch. i live soley for those 2 classes. photo class is amazing. it took me a while to get a good pinhole camera picture, but on wednesday i finally got one. it's pretty shitty, but alright for a first. i don't count the ones that turned completely black. yesterday i took a picture of a chair, and another one of a bookshelf. the one of the chair, i am in love with. the one of the bookshelf is alright but is MISSING IN ACTION. i can't find it but hopefully it shows up. for lunch i stay in photo class. to take more pictures with the pinhole, to make cool prints, to chill in the darkroom. me and becca are cooler than you, we eat after playing with chemicals. i love the smell of darkroom, i have it on my hands and clothes for the rest of the day after 5th period. i don't mind, i think it smells wonnnnnnnderful. afterwards is government and then geometry. both ehhhhhhh classes. i hate school, it's already getting so monotonous. i already am irritated and want a break.

but back to what i was saying..to put it bluntly, i've become obsessed with having my own darkroom and making another pinhole camera, one for school, one for here.

all i've been doing online is researching how to's and such. i've been literally itching for some photo action. you have nooo idea.

i freaking love it
this is what i want to do.
( in other news, )

Hm, let's see. I guess I like sophomore year so far. I've talked to various people throughout the week. If you know me well at all, you know I don't do that. But I've got to. I want to be happy. I just want people in my life, that's all. I know it's going to be a long process, but I'm willing to go for it. Thank you, Therapist. (Well, I guess I deserve credit too).

1. English with Lightsey. My mom's friends who have upperclassmen daughters all love Mr. Lightsey. He's pretty cool, I guess. He looks like Bill Nye. I have a rough draft due to him on Tuesday. It's English, I'm sure I'll enjoy the class.

2. Software Apps. with Mr. Misigoy. Uh..I thought I knew stuff, til I took the pre-assessment. Dude, I suck with computers. I dunno, but the pre-assessment was hard, I had no idea how to do all that stuff, with just Microsoft Word. Oh well, it's a non-homework class, I think/hope. Mr. Misigoy, whenever he talks, sounds like he's talking to himself. It's weird. One of Becca's good friends, Nicole, is in that class, and we had a short conversation, all thanks to moi. And Mr. Mooney Jr. is in that class, hah. I would have NEVER guessed they were related, they look nothing alike. There's also this really scared freshman in the class, he comes in like 5 minutes late every day, and he looks so scared. I almost feel bad.

3. Bio with Mr. Fitz. This is the first time in the day that I see a wide range of people. It's regular, not honors, and it's only with my grade. It's kind of weird, whenever I get to this class, I feel like the day's almost over. When Mr. Fitz says certain words, he sounds slightly mentally retarded. It's mildly amusing. The other day we were playing with beetles. It was..interesting. We're also learning about the scientific method, for about the 5th year in a row. It really annoys me. Also, the kid who sits next to me didn't know I knew his name. I thought that was interesting.

4. Spanish 3 with Alexandrou. She treats the class like we're kids. It's annoying. And we spend the first half hour doing a warm up that I could've completed after a year of Spanish 1. The majority of the classmen is freshman, I recognize a lot of them from my Spanish 1 class I took in 8th grade. 9th grade and 10th grade seems like a much bigger difference than 7th grade and 8th grade, but idk. The class just...aghhh. I feel like a baby in that class.

5. Photography with Ms. Daisley. My favorite class. It's really exciting, right now, we're making pinehole cameras out of a salt box. It's really hard to explain, but it's so cool. I freaking love this class. + Becca is in it. That's the first time I see her all day, it's so frustrating, not talking to her all day. Then I have sooo much to say by 5th period. This girl Pam's in that class, and Becca and I spent the whole period talking to her, it was pretty cool. There are these freshman boys that think they know everything about photography, and developing film, and all that, and it's really immature. There's even an inside joke with Becca, Ms. Daisley and I, about them. Har-har.

6. Lunch, Becca and I spend it in Ms. Daisley's room. To get away from these two freshman girls that always try to sit with us =X

7. NSL with Mrs. Monk. Egh, I get to be with people I haven't been with all day. I guess you could call them the popular kids? I dunno. Anywho, the teacher's a bit weird and perky and singsongy and I don't like that. We're watching a movie though, Lord of the Flies, so it's all good. I hope it'll be an enlightening class, though. Oh yeah, and Nicole's in that class too, but we sit pretty far away from eachother. It also suprises me that certain people are in honors classes.

8. Geometry with Mrs. Allen. More than too many freshman in this class. We didn't do like any Geometry until like Friday. She treats us like babies, I think it's the fact that it's mostly freshman in the class. There's one girl who's a freshman that I want to talk to, but she's all the way across the room, and there's this OTHER kid who I might want to talk to, but he sits in the way back, and when we have time to do what we want, nobody talks, so I don't wanna be the only one going up to someone. Especially since I have nothing to say, especially to someone who has no idea who I am or why I'm walking towards them. I spend the whole class period spacing out and waiting for the clock to finally say 2:10.

Anyways, Friday afternoon we had a Pep Rally, ugh. I hate Pep Rallies. At least Becca and I were together, though. That made it better. After that, we walked around aimlessly, since we didn't feel like walking anywhere and didn't have a ride. So we went to get sodas from the vending machine, then we waited at the front of the school. We finally called my mom and she picked us up at about 2:40. We went to her house, cleared my memory card, and went in her bed to practice her monologue for when she auditions for the play. We (as always) had buttloads of fun and laughs and such. I took pictures, but on her camera, since I liked it better at the moment. We did more exciting things, then we used her mini stove thing to make fires in her backyard on the porch, it was wicked cool. Took lots of pictures, on Becca's camera. We had so.many.good.times.

Saturday I did homework. Got a lot done, all I have to do now is my rough draft for English. I stayed home all day. Got semi-neurotic, went into self destruct mode. Mom doesn't like it. At about 1, I got in bed, and woke up again at like 7. Then I typed this in my Draft section of my Gmail account. Yes, I'm that much of a nerd. I did that while listening to RENT and Avenue Q repeatedly; Thank you Jake, for your Ipod-y goodness.

Sunday, Jake had a guy named Josh come over. I won't go into details 'cause that's his stuff. He made Jake look quiet, and straight. Of course I liked him, he talked so much, I didn't have to say anything. Just listen. My mommy, the two of them, and me, went to get Kosher pizza. I picked up my photo supplies at some place, and then this OTHER place for OTHER photo supplies, and shah. Thenn...we wandered while the lady that was cutting my dad's hair lost our credit card. Yes, lost the credit card. Anywho, we went home and Becca came over and I got really frustrated and anxious because of what was going on with Jake and Josh, and yeah. So I was really bitchy this evening =X But I do not like this Josh kid anymore. Jake will NOT be seeing him again, I hope.

So since Becca was supposed to come over tomorrow, but I invited her over tonight 'cause I was bored and was Becca-less.

We did stuff. Uh..okay well this is way too long and I need to stop writing.
Alright I'm done. Woo for the satisfactory of a long entry.

Hello.
The new JM album came out 2 days ago, and of course it's wonderful. I got it at Target, for 9 dollars. Woo. I freaking love it. Andrew is amazing. He's so..intelligent, and his words are just..amazing. He's so deep, and..I was blown away by all of the lyrics. Dude though, when I was looking for the album, it was under 'M'. Like 'Mannequin' is 'Jack's' last name. Dubtef? I had to set them straight. I moved all the JM cds and the Jacks Mannequin tag to the J section. So there, Target.

Anyways, I've been posting a lot in the JM community, and not much at all in here, and I just felt guilty. So now I'm posting in here.
Uhh..After I picked up my CD, Jake & I had an orthodontist appointment. I haven't been wearing my retainers, because they're so annoying, but I wore them on that day, and the people didn't notice at all! Scoreeeee. I should be wearing them though, but oh well. Then we went to this vintage-y store in DC, because that's where my orthodontist is. It was really cool. I liked a lot of the stuff, but I didn't get anything. I didn't do anything the rest of the day, but Kevin, my dad, and our family friend David, who's Kevin's age, went to a baseball game. It was the Nationals vs. Reds. Supposedly, the Nationals lost by 2 or something, but I really don't know anything about baseball. Oh yeah, while they were at the game, I took a nap, and read. Yay, reading. I started/finished reading this book called God Of Beer, and I was really disappointed in it. It kind of sucked. I had to like, make myself read it, I hoped it would get more interesting. OH YEAH, I think I worked out on the elliptical, that my mom got for her birthday. I ran for 20 minutes and burned 121 calories.

Then yesterday we ran errands, went to Taco Bell, then I had Joan (therapist). Cosmo (her dog, a sheltie, freaking adorable) wasn't there, it was sad. I need a picture of him. He doesn't like most people, but he likes meee=] Then we picked up Becca and went to my house. We watched Clueless and worked out. This time, I worked out for 25 minutes, burned 180 calories. Scoreeeeee. We finished Clueless, it was interesting. There was this guy, and from the beginning I thought he might turn out to be gay, and he was gay. I have a really really sharp gay-dar. The brother in the movie, was also pretty good looking. He looked A LOT like Ben Affleck but I don't think it was him. Then I had a quick shower, and then we talked and stuff, and then ate dinner. Then we sucked helium. It WOULD have been fun, but they were the balloons that pop easily, it blew up in my face. Literally. I experienced a near death experience (hah). We videotaped it (like we always do when we have parties & suck helium) and it's pretty damn funny. I love our suckumentaries. So I was getting tired and bitchy so I set up pillows and blankets in the basement. I thought I was tired, but we ended having a really awesome talk from 11:30 to like 2 or 3. Good stuff. So this morning we chilled and ate and played with dogface. Then sat at the kitchen table and I laminated my first semester schedule with tape.

Today, Jake is having Becca and David (a different Becca) come over later today. So I have to read my book..I'm on page 6. I'm reading Demon In The Freezer. It's about anthrax, at least, so far. There's a really gory autopsy, I might have to re-type it in here. Hah..

H'okay, gotta go read before I get sucked into the LJ world (again).

love & jm,
steph

Okay, school starts pretty soon so here's an update.

Summer. I enjoyed it. Started off with Capital Camps, which was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Then Summer School, which was okay. Then chill time. I love chill time.

My birthday was August 14th. I finally turned 15, months after the rest of the world. The day before my birthday, we visited distant family in NJ. We went boating and fishing, then kayaking, which I found is something I'd like to do more often. On my birthday, we drove to a hotel outside of New York, which was a birthday surprise for Jake and I. We spent the day wandering about in New York. We stood by last minute ticket booths, hoping to see Avenue Q or Spamalot. No such luck. We wandered, aimlessly. It rained. A lot. The next day was a lot better, we thought we saw Samuel L. Jackson, but it was just a wax figure. It was really convincing. I really wanted to go inside the Wax Museum but we didn't. Kevin wanted to go shoe shopping (of course) so we did a bit of that. I wanted to see some historical type things, like Ground Zero and the Statue Of Liberty, since I hadn't ever. Both were a disappointment. I thought Ground Zero would have a memorial or something, like the Vietnam Wall, but there wasn't, and it was just a fence around an empty area. Oh well, that's what I get for being somewhat ignorant, I guess. The ferry that took us to the Statue Of Liberty didn't get close enough to the statue, so I couldn't get a decent picture. Boo. A lot more wandering, but this time, in a different part of NY; the other part being the theatre part, and this was the business area. Then headed home. I think, in that weekend, I spent more time with my dad, than I ever have, in my whole entire life. I didn't even mind it. Weird.

More chill time. Yesssss. Spent buttloads of time with Becca. It was good stuff, for the most part.  Except for when I started PMSing. Hah, you can only imagine. Had a 4 day marathon with her, it ended yesterday. As of right now I think we're both sick of each other.

We got our schedules for the upcoming school year. No longer a freshman, yesss. I called the guidance counselor and made a lot of schedule changes, so now I've got 2 classes with Becca first semester (photography and lunch), which is good, so I can still see her, and also make new friends. Bet you never heard me use those three words in a sentence. But I am planning to do exactly that. Anyways, second semester, I've got 5 classes with her, thanks to much planning on Becca's part, and much conversing with guidance counselors. I don't know how I feel about school, nervous, of course, that's a given, but everything else, I don't know. All I am sure of is that I have to start reading my summer reading book, hah. I haven't started =X

I've read pretty much every other book this summer, though. I want to go to the library sometime this week and get a history of every book I checked out this summer so I can get a feel for how many books I've read. I think that would be interesting.

Speaking of reading, I was looking for an LJ community that discusses books, not like an organized book club, but if someone's read a book recently that they want to talk about, they'd post about it, and what they thought and such. I most likely will have already read it, so I'd comment on what I thought, and we'd have a mini-discussion. Yeah, I'm a book nerd. Aaaaand I like it.

Oh yeah, yesterday we celebrated Kevin's 13th birthday. Today is his real birthday, but my mom works late today, so we celebrated yesterday. Becca came along. La familia went mini-golfing, which was kinda crappy. It was very hot out. Then to the mall, which sucked 'cause I got bitchy, and it was a crappy mall with pretty much nothing good except Borders. Becca & I had a mini-fight =X

I think that's all the LJ world needs to know. I'm not gonna care who reads it, or comments, or any of that stuff. This journal is for me. I'm gonna write as much as I want, whenever I want, and all that. Okay? Okay.

I don't spend nearly as much time on the computer as I used to, so no idea when I'll update again. Who knows. But I love my new user icon, hah. </non-sequitor>

Uhh yeah. I thought about working out this morning, but I think I'm gonna get back in bed and read.

End.


PS- JM's CD, Everything In Transit comes out tomorrow. FINALLY. JM lyrics (Mixed Tape, is the song) are currently featured on my layout=]

don't really know what to say, but i'm changing for the better. i've already started.
i'm doing things, and it's making a difference.
when i go to school in the fall, i'm gonna be different.
i can't explain stuff, so i think i'm taking a hiatus. probably be back when school starts up again.
be prepared for a new person.

well i'm back.

i'd say something but it always ends up being wayy too long.
so i'll say this:
i'm going to camp for four weeks, june 26 to july 24. i swear this isn't an excuse just so that i don't have to update. really i'll be gone, i swear.

So school's over?
Doesn't feel like it. I woke up today at about 9, then remembered I didn't have to be anywhere.
I tried to read one of  my twenty library books I got a couple weeks ago but I couldn't lay still.
Dubtef?

Sunday was Becca's birthday. There was coincidentally an AFM show on that day so that was really cool. They're such a fun band live. I love them. Marry me, AFM?

( details about yesterday and today )

On Friday, Becca & I are doing an M squared.When I said that to Jake yesterday, he says, knowingly, "a Matt Mooney?" No, actually and unexpectedly he's wrong. Mall and movies, beeeetch. Usually I hate malls but I'm going to give it a try. Don't know what movie we're gonna see yet, maybe Sisterhood for the 3rd time, or maybe some movie I haven't heard of. Anyone know any good movies coming out? I have noo idea what's out there.

Then Saturday, Becca & I are babysitting from 12PM to 12AM. It's going to be awesome. It'll definitely help me save for my camera. Which I don't have yet. Sobsob. I'm working on it, though. I have to somehow earn another hundred bucks. So babysitting = fun and helpful towards camera money.

One day I am no doubtedly going to write a book. I write so goddamn much everywhere else, why the hell couldn't I write a book. Yeah so, no apologies for making this long, because I do what I want, this is my LJ. But read every word and you get a PSE-made cookie!

[/gone] (I definetly need to establish some sort of signing out phrase)

Too lazy to update..
I'll do this in bullets.

• Exams are overrated. I could have failed my math exam today and still had a B in that class. They count for like nothing.
• I'm addicted to Adobe Photoshop Elements. Downloading fonts, brushes, bases..Except I don't really know what to do with them. Oh well. I'll keep working.
• Looking towards buying a new ( camera )
  
  I have more to say, but I think it's time for me to shut up.
  
  PS- I like Phantom. Against my own will, of course.
  PPS- It's really hot out.
  PPPS- School's almost over. 3 more days of exams. That's barely school. Yeah, this is a new realization.

Support Andrew McMahon with his fight against lymphatic leukemia. I sure as hell do. Andrew McMahon is vocals for two piano rock bands- Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin.

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Ah, again with this updating thing.
I probably over-analyze the whole deal.
I feel like I have to explain every minute of every day. Of course, I don't have to. But I do. And I can't just be like "Whatever" because that bothers me.

I need to go to the library. I have no books. It sucks that I've read everything in the YA section at the libraries I usually go to.

I'd update but I never know what to say.
I start writing and realize it really doesn't matter to anyone but me.
So whatever.

Two Minutes Later..
    Today I'm going to the Hometown Holidays, to see the Supertonics. 4 - 5:30, come listen if you're in the area. Get some Ben & Jerry's while you're at it. Give a kid named Ryan a tip.

    I would die for a chance to see Jack's Mannequin live. Well, I'd like to see them live, then I would keep my promise, & die. Just wanted to clear that up. Anywho, their CD comes out July/August. I can't wait that long, so the answer is to see them live. Unfortunately, Andrew McMahon is in the hospital right now. I think he's got bad laryngitis? Not sure, but I'd love to see them sometime when he recovers. Oh, so Andrew McMahon is the lead singer of the piano-rock band that I love called Something Corporate. He has a side band, Jack's Mannequin, which I've also grown to love. They have a pop-up player on their site where you can here two songs. Oh, I bet if I went to www.purevolume.com or www.myspace.com, I could find some more songs. Hrm. I'm gonna go check.

Alright. I'm gone.

Hello.
I just need to get this out..
( A rant.. )
I love this HSA schedule, sleep in, arrive in the middle of 4th period (lunch) that starts at 11 something, then go to child development and sit there for 45 minutes, then two other classes for 20 minutes each. then I go home and I just got there. good stuff. except next year when i'll have like 5 HSA's. But that's next year.

Anywho. This morning I figured out how to do animation on my Photoshop which is cool. I can't do much..at all. Yet, anyways. So I spent the majority of the morning doing that. The best I could do is this. (click)

Then the day went by pretty quickly..Seeing as no teacher really does anything at this point, except for Mr. Gonzalez, who has an endless amount of spanish dittos and packets. Oy.

I went to Drama Club today, to vote for Matt for Drama Club VP next year. And Becca got a ton of awesome people's signatures in her yearbook. I would have gotten them if I could, but I have a thing about... talking. To people, generally. So that didn't work out.

Okay, House is on, I'm gone.
Bye kids.

PS- I'm allergic to bullshit. Click.

Ahh, so I meant to update forever ago but life allows no time for computer time.
It's been..6 days? Okay, so not as long as it felt it was.

On the Sunday after HFStival I think I went to see part of the camp I'm going to over the summer. I saw the kiddy portion so it sucked. David, Becca (vegetariandrama, not his sister) and Jake & I then went were taken to Burger King to eat. Ew, fast food, I know, but I'll take it if I must. THEN we went to the play thing, with the slides & stuff, ohmybuddha I love those things. I took pictures of us while we were there, but not many since I was too busy crawling around. I posted them here. They're in the album that says "Full Memory Card as of May 21." I did a lot of  uploading  there just now, I loaded the pictures I took with a 35 mm of flowers when I went  picture-taking with Stu. My keyboard's  being slow & messed up so  if there are any typos, I won't know until I've submitted this. Anyways..

This week went by sort of weird. Monday, I thought it was Tuesday. Tuesday, woke up feeling like it was Wednesday. So on Thursday I was like "phew, a break.." but it wasn't really Friday so feh.
Anyways I remember like 3 things from this week:
( Insiiiiiiiide the LJ-cuttttttt )

So yesterday after a trip to Costo, the greatest,  hugest, and most plentiful store on earth, with Becca and mi madre, I worked for 3 hours on my world studies project. I could be TOTALLY on the wrong track with it but oh well I'm not re-doing it.

Then this morning my dad dragged me to a Communication self help deal that's supposed to be "healing" or something which was actually okay I guess but now when my dad brings it up I'm thinking it's bullshit.
 Today  I worked for like 6 straight hours on my World Studies Final Review Sheet, and then  made a huuuuge dent in that Science project.

And now I have nothing to say.
Except..go see my pictures because I'd love you forever.
Clickkkkkkkkk.
kbye.

Hellooo.

So HFStival on Saturday. H'ohboy. Uhmm, I've already tried pre-writing, and I have too much to say. Uhm yeah.

( HFStival Experience )

Ah, I've gotta cut this short.
Yelling from la madre.
Goodnight.
PS- a few pictures here: http://photobucket.com/albums/y202/le_steph/HFStival%20and%20the%20day%20after/

'Kay, so life is shitty, what can ya do.

My dysfunctional family had one hell of a Mother's Day. We went to my dad's office. Eh, that's what we do on holidays. Spend family time at my dad's office.

Last night I got like no sleep. I was listening to Matty's voice on the A Capella CD Becca burned for me. mmm matty:) I also read this crazy-ass book. Just, really weird. I'm guessing it's one of a series..Hard to tell. On the top it says The Black Book: Diary Of A Teenage Stud. Then it says Vol. III, Run, Jonah, Run. Eh, find out for yourself why I'm sayin' it's so crazy.

Oh so yesterday at the library, Kevin and his friend Ale were taking pictures of people (with the flash off, of course) and it was just so funny. There were these two little asian girls on a bench, reading anime books, so Ale picks up a random book and sits next to them on the bench, trying to like, fit in with them. Ohman, they're so funny. I'm posting those pictures sometime, definetly. In the car, Kev and Ale were cuddling in the trunk. They're like 'brothas." I say "brothas" because they're gangster. So they say.

I'm looking online for new digital cameras. Anyone have any suggestions? I want one with a higher amount of megapixels, so. I found one, Canon Powershot SD200. I like it, except it has lots of menus and complicated stuff. But eh, I don't have to decide anytime soon.

Oh, I found a clip of my brothers & I as babies on this computer. It's really cute. Sometime I'm going to look for a code that allows you to post videos on here, or something. Orrrrr if you wanted I could send it to you doing a "send file" thing on AIM..Heh, I was just so excited to find that.

Alright I'm gonna go.
Later kids.