Elsa. Why are you rubbing off on me? I feel insecure now. Lovely. BLAH.

I hate biology too, by the way. It makes me hate nature. Environmentalism goes out the door. I think Morgoth and Sauron corrupted the Orcs by making them take biology. That's why they hew and hate the trees so much.

For the first time in a long time, I spent loads of time with friends.

Friday night: Went to the boys' basketball CIF game with Kathleen and Yogin. They lost undeservedly, unfortunately. :( It was so sad!!! It made me miss basketball a little. Kathleen carried the cymbals back to the band hall and seemed determined to make as much noise as possible while doing so. *CLANG* KONG XI FA TSAI! (which is basically what we say for Chinese New Year) *CLANG* MULAN!!!!!

Saturday: homework day I suppose. I spent most of it watching Boy Meets World on Youtube.

Sunday: Got up early to go to the Arboretum with Kathleen. I HATE BIOLOGY. HAHA so does Kathleen, though her anger is directed more towards Mr. K. So she was standing there in the middle of no where singing "I HATE MR K. I HATE MR K" very off tune and she looks up and there's this Mexican guy in his truck dancing to it. It was SO HILARIOUS. He was like, "Keep going!"
After wrestling with the plants and tripping over roots and mistaking leaves for insects (*COUGH KATHLEEN* She screamed like someone was gonna kill her when a leaf landed on her paper because she thought it was a bee.), we met Andy at Islands for lunch. After pigging out, we all headed to Borders because Kathleen is a nerd. There, Andy and I fought over "Love Actually" and I introduced Kathleen to Barack Obama.
And of course, we took pictures, as usual.









This was very painful.

And of course, the bad pictures came soon after.

I don't know what I was doing here.


Yeah this is just scary.



No. Kathleen. Just no.


And then Kathleen and I thought it would be fun to try and be like Norman.





Wow. I like Kathleen's more. Looks more like Norman. :D



I don't know what is wrong with Andy's camera but for some reason I am blue. Like ELphaba!! But err. wrong colour. OH!!! FIYERO IS BLUE IN THE BOOK!! WHEE! I AM FIYERO!



It's Kathleen yawning! Like she always is!

And we always end with an "aww" picture.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!!!!1

I know you were all worried that I might have died. Wow. Nine days. I think that's a record. I've had many near death experiences though. One would be my neck, which hurts when I freakin open my mouth really wide to eat a cupcake. Another would be the BARRAGE of projects and massive amounts of homework that teachers are chucking at us.

Well... a quick update. I stayed at layout for the first time today. That was fun. Learned many things. Probably won't remember all the numbers and buttons by tomorrow though. Pica: 0.167. Must remember. Very important.

JSA this past weekend was awesome as well. Abortion and death penalty--my two issues, as usual. I actually got cheers for abortion. It was great. And what was awesome about the death penalty debate was that the main speaker quoted the "main speaker from Fall State" that since "you don't rape the rapists, why do you murder the murderers?" and that "main speaker fro mFall State" would be me. Wow. people actually remembered. I am honoured.

Yogin is the sweetest boy in the history of that subcontinent of Asia. hahaa and the rest of the world. :)

SHAYNE! I FOUND A LINE FOR THE MODERNISTS AGAIN!!!

"but his eyes gleamed like stars that shine the brighter as the night deepens"

Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

The wisdom of Gandalf.

Hehe this made me laugh out loud. Literally. And I never use that acronym.

"Master Meriadoc," said Aragorn, "if you think that I have passed through the mountains and the realm of Gondor with fire and sword to bring herbs to a careless soldier who throws away his gear, you are mistaken. If your pack has not been found, then you must send for the herb-master of this House. And he will tell you that he did not know that the herb you desire had any virtues, but that it is called westmansweed by the vulgar, and galenas by the noble, and other names in other tongues more learned, and after adding a few half-forgotten rhymes that he does not understand, he will regretfully inform you that there is none in the House, and he will leave you to reflect on the history of tongues."

That reminded me so much of Gandalf, so it wasn't a surprise when Pippin says:
"Was there ever any one like him? Except Gandalf, of course. I think they must be related."

And then the image of Gandalf and Aragorn being related (picture Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen) just set me chuckling and chortling.

hehe and then Pippin calls Merry an "ass". "My dear ass" to be exact. :D

Oh how happy they make me.

... as the sweet influence of the herb stole about the chamber it seemed to those who stood by that a keen wind blew through the window, and it bore no scent, but was an air wholly fresh and clean and young, as if it had not before been breathed by any living thing and came new-made from snowy mountains high beneath a dome of stars, or from shores of silver far away washed by seas of foam.

For the fragrance that came to each was like a memory of dewy mornings of unshadowed sun in some land of which the fair world in Spring is itself but a fleeting memory.

Wow. I think that might be the best thus far.

Not fair.

Really not fair.

I don't know if I hate any other words more than these.
"Hey Elaine! I'm so excited! I'm going to England next summer!"

Oh and Wilson had the, "OMG my mom's making me go to London with her over winter break. I really don't want to go."

And then Sheena and her rich relatives in England who are taking her to a freakin Liverpool match when they're from Harrow and want her to go to college in England.