don't abandon him

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:31:36 GMT

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:23:00 GMT

Love is the concern you see in your mother's eyes when she wishes out loud that she would be sick instead of you because that would hurt less for her, the warmth you feel when she stays up all night watching over you while your dad runs to the pharmacy at 3 in the morning. It's the moment you suddenly realize you miss that annoying middle school friend who followed you around everywhere, poking you incessantly and jabbering loudly about anime while you were trying to study. You realize that she genuinely cared about you. Love is those rare, unexpected moments when he gives you a quick, honest answer. It's the look he gives you after he kisses you that makes your eyes dart in another direction to stop you from melting. Love is watching your best friend's van pull out of your driveway. It hits you hard the next day when you realize that this time the van is taking her to Michigan, not back to 11932 Blanfield Drive. You never cry, but now as you remember meeting her for the first time eight years ago, you can't stop. Love is what eharmony tries to find for you. They don't understand that the truest kind of love forms unprovoked, unsearched for. It's slow to develop, and sometimes you know it's there the whole time, but other times, you don't see it until it hits you over the head. Love is not something you gossip about; it's unspoken. Love is patient, kind, forgiving, selfless, unbashful, courageous. Love is full of thought but requires none. It's what you and I live for.

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:49:42 GMT

So my great idea for a black and white photogram? Took me FOREVER to cut out (not to mention using a tiny little blade that killed my finger) and probably isn't even gonna work.

be happy, friends! <3

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:39:04 GMT

ahh so many sad people around me, both irl and on lj. there is always something worth living for. if you have not found it yet, you will one day, and then you will appreciate life so much.

how I feel about my classes

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:21:59 GMT

1 - photography : holy crap I have to buy a lot of stuff, this had better be sweet (where do I get all this stuff??? and camera??) a bunch of people switched out of religions!!! cuz it's apparently hard work. so I could switch in, but I'd also like a slack class, so I believe I'll stay with photography. maybe it will be fun. :P can always take religions in college.
2 - environmental : seems neato!
3 - AP chem : A++! I vigorously enjoyed it. also many of my favourite junior buddies are in it (kammie, daniel, angie, cory, etc.). I forgot I had junior friends. :P new teacher = cool! also = speaks sporadically in spanish and pig latin
4 - modern political theory : Sorrentino!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cries of delight!
5 - math modeling : AWESOME
6 - AP literature : bueno! Mr. Waller is fly
7 - study hall : YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
8 - architecture : hooray for Mr. Slipek and awesomeness and fieldtrips!!

overall = A++++

ahhh I'm SO glad I did all my silly required classes before senior year :DDD no more french, no more calculus, no more boring social studies classes for meeee! though I miss french a biiiit

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:00:51 GMT

After seeing Alex Chiou's amazing painting on her LJ, I thought about paints and water colors and things.

I always thought water colors looked like this:

You know, mix water and chalk, can't really see anything when you try to paint with it. But then I remembered that I bought a set of water colors in China,

They're kind of fun!

I have a weird obsession with drawing elephants :P

Anyway, here are some random sketchbook drawings from art 1! (sorry the pictures are kinda dark)

^lol k8y remember this?

bwehehe blind contour dwgs

yeah not terribly exciting

anyway

self portrait! haha (Mrs. Kowler: "oh dear...")

details:

^Miss Frizzle has lovely shoes

oh I used caran d'age (sp?) for the hair. it's pretty cool stuff

I'm sure you've all seen this

+ name design

scratchboard

^ AHHHH!!! I HATED THIS PROJECT!!!!!! that was with the bird lady

elewhale pot!

it is a whale

and an elephant (lol my mom put a flower in it)

^ that was what I had in mind while potting. obviously I am a very sucky potter. like REALLY sucky. the pot looked like a bee hive for a while, then was a baby carriage, and finally when it started to look somewhat like an elephant, I stopped.

detail:

noah's ark, for everything that is not a whale or an elephant

the unicorn did not make the ark

magnetic poetry = sweet way to waste time :)

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:44:18 GMT

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:27:17 GMT

this is how we roll

HOLY CRAP I'M GOING TO BE SIX TOMORROW.

MARCH 26, 2007 (where the party's at!!!)

My day begins with the bus:

Lucy arrives with a sweet poster for me!

I open it.

And read it.

A lot of these were from old emails and blog entries. Some I don't even remember. So don't feel bad. I love Lucy!!!

Annndd she's six!

Here we are holding on to our dreams.

Fuh?

...and then we decide to take pictures of people making this face!

....on the premise of a school project

1st period ART, where we slave for the bird!

ugggh linoleum test strips

British kid on left, creepy kid on right (we stereotype. it's how we roll).

It's SHADOW DAY!! Note awkward kids in background. One kid, Hemingway, had a notepad and took notes! So cute.

The mad rush in the hall. Mostly eighth graders.

Shreiber to the rescue!!

AUSTEN!!! made me a cake <3333!!

Sarah J agrees that it's like a slice of heaven.

Riblett lights the candle.

Devon woke up at 3 in the morning and remembered that she forgot my birthday present! nuuuu! She quickly writes up a card.

That's my name!

I am a card reading pig.

Check out Leesy('s nonexistence). Actually, I think she was in class for five minutes this day. Good deal!

"Miss Battoneau, let's talk about Hermes Birkin bags. Did you know that they are 20,000 dollars?" Devon, Grace, Me: "?!#%?!#$?!????" Devon and I rush out of class and into the college library to look this up. We find out that they are indeed 20,000 dollars, and not that attractive. Boxed purses with H's on them for the price of a car? No thanks! We make our own.

Devon's fifth failed attempt at being a good rich snob....

Theeeeere ya go.

Audrey makes an amused/disgusted face.

Robert Lawrence comes bearing an important looking box. Money? Yes please!

Toliver trains to be a seal.

...DODGEBALL TIME!...

We thought "dodge bubble" would be a better game, so we tried, but woe alas, it failed. It's still fun to capture dodgeballers in bubbles!

cuuute

Sarah J got soap in Sean's hair. Always fun to mess with Sean!

The Asian Assembly girls get me from dodgeball. "Dude we gotta take pictures!!!!" Oh right!!!

Sweet pictures in front of bathroom stalls! I had to hold my apron b/c it wouldn't buckle.

Angie kickboxes.

After lunch, it's time for PHYSUCKS WITH MR. BOYLE!! This is the highlight of my week, as you have guessed.

Devon is excited about physucks!

She gives me her last piece of gum. good stuff!

Hey Emily!

Great room to shadow, eh?

BFF!!

And SEVEN PERIOD FRNECH!!

Tom s'est coupe les cheveux. Freak out!!

We found this "leg" card, so I decided to label Elena's leg.

Oh that's hot.

SNHS = BEST TIMES !

We work on packaging goody bags for the little science kids!

Spinny TOPSSSS Menaka is obsessed with

GUMMY BUGS FTW

GUMMY RATS YUMMM (who buys these things other than Mrs. Hicks??!)

Menaka's sufficiently grossed out.

Good luck getting air on these frisbee juniors, kids.

weeoah

We had some sweet teamwork going on. Sohini was the RATE DETERMINING FACTOR. "Sohini, hurry up! RDF, RDF!!" Wambura astutely noted, "I've never heard that used as an insult."

"My lollypop's messed up!" poor baby.

WE EAT BUGS.

STREEETCH

eeee-ew

Joanna is her awesome self

Finished product. 190 bags, baby!

Trevor tries to explain impulse. He writes a J on the board. I tell him I reaaaaaaaally don't think I've ever seen a J in physics other than Joules.

So we look it up. delta p! Silly Trev.

At tennis practice, my secret sis gives me a puppy in a mug! awwe.

And Coach gives me Serena shoes! holy crap!

I go home, and dad brings out the ICE CREAM CAKE.

And the food

Then I was sad that I had to do homework on my birthday...

until...

JESIKA ARRIVED WITH A BASKET OF CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS AND STARBUCKS AND A CARD!! <333

mmmmm muffins

Mother: "let me take an awkward picture of you!"
"....kaaay"

wheee

She and her dad leave. Jesse barks at them. "JESSE SHUT UP!"

Thank you , I will enjoy! Magnetic poetry, amirite??? (yes!)

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 (I had an extended birthday)

Dad told me I needed to call this person sometime between 8 and 6 and gave me her business card. So I went around and asked people what the heck the writing said. I received a unanimous "Janice duhhh," so I called during stamb and asked for Janice. Except it was JANELL. Who wasn't there. So I had no idea what to say to the other lady. "ummm well my dad told me to talk to Janice - Janell - not exactly sure why?" "Okay I'll call you back later. What's your number?" "I'm not sure."

Katey and Jasmine! Katey baked me TEH AMAZING POUND CAKE zeeeeeeeeOMG and Jasmine got me cute socks and an anklet.

Then Devon arrived with my tee-shirt! <33

yaaaaaaaaaaay dinosaur and cow farm!!

I don't think anyone will ever understand this shirt, Devon.

Ooo Mrs. Reed's being filmed... weird. I like Mrs. Reed.

Stamb, during which we discuss Michel Douglaaah

During lunch, these pigs devoured my zeeeeeeeeOMG delicious poundcake >:O!

I love ma li sen.

... :(

And the train stops at ... BIOLOGY!

Where Alex gives me a card she made!! Alex is so cute.

And then we looked at dead animals!!

MAD SCIENTISTS, JEUH?

PUPPY!!!

anemonen...anemome...anoemoen..anemone

oh gross

Mrs. Edge talking to shhhhadows

Bio bubbbbbles

And then English!

Where the boys show off to the shadows.

And Mrs. Surat cries.

The shadows were WEIRD. seriously. P-Town kid: "Do you have any CLASSICS? Let's just say *flips hair* that I've drained all the classics in my library."

She returned our personal anthologies. I thought I failed mine because I wrote it in french, but apparently, she reads french. Doesn't it look like "7/30"? It actually says "+30."

No pictures, but sweet doubles matches at UR against TJ. Katey + me 10-0 against TJ girls then 3-8 against Andi and Kam.

I went home and checked myspace...

JARED THOUGHT EVERYONE WAS JOKING ABOUT IT BEING MY BIRTHDAY.

Annnnd Wednesday March 28, 2007

It's the BUS DRIVERS' CLUB!

Sweet! Lucy: "I think Mike saw you. He looked at you funny."

GOVERNMENT is always a party. It's true.

Jordan decided to videotape Mr. Schreiber for the talent show.

Mr. Shreiber! Top = Austen's, bottom = mine. "Mr. Shreiber, keep your face still, I'm drawing you." "THAT'S NOT ME!!!"

Uh Jared in lederhosen. Moving on....

I decided that the bracelet/anklet Jasmine gave me was an anklet. cuz it fit on my ankle and not my wrist. Lucy's and Laura's ankles joined the picture.

I forget the context of this! Anyone want to remind me?

Feh?

I get home

and

I see mail

and I open it. And it's the most amazing present I've ever received. I LOVE JINGNAN!!!!!!! More than any of you. I'm sorry.

She gave me a pretty bag.

And a package of poker cards....she wrote a memory or something weird on all 54!

She also made me a movie entitled FINDING BERNICE. If I were in a more nostalgic mood, I would've cried. It was amazing. But I can't show it to you guys, or you'd melt.

Doesn't it look like it says "I shaved my mom"? lol good for you, Jingnan.

Of course I had to order an english copy of the book we're reading in French. :X

The end for Wednesday!

THURSDAY MARCH 29

I forgot to bring my camera today. Sad! But here is what happened. Paint a picture in your head.

Morning: I rush to the computer lab and check my SAT scores. I see. I scream. "HOOOOLY CRAP!!!" 20 people turn their heads. I run around the cafeteria screaming, "I'm going to college!!!!" Then I have to sit down because I feel sort of weak. I call my dad and he brings me back down to earth. He thinks I need to retest. I don't think I will, but I acknowledge that my score isn't actually superb, and that it was way inflated by my writing score. Which I thought I would've failed because I swear my essay was horrible. Not! Good deal!!

Second period: Mrs. Reed is sweet. We're discussing objects of revolution or whatever, so she brings us bagel bites and jelly beans and skewered apples. Because they revolve. Then I go to scheduling. Didn't work out quite as I had planned. Had to switch 4 and 6. No more Mr. Waller and no study hall with Jared (gonna miss you, boo!).

Fourth period: Stamb = bio hw and gossip.

Sixth period = Bio.

Eighth period = fieldtrip to the VCU library! We saw some pretty sweet books. Library cut out into the shape of a gun, book signed by Scott Fitzgerald, book shaped like bricks, AMAZING alphabet zoo book. "Crunks are not so unoften drastic / and so we tie them with elastic." Then we rush back, stop by Starbucks...I forgot my Starbucks giftcard! d'oh! More like I forgot we were going on the fieldtrip today. Tough!

Annnd, of course, video supplements!

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:29:29 GMT

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:36:06 GMT

my grandpa's high school graduation picture:

grandpa and his nephew (who is really fat now):

grandpa looking dazed:

grandma and Buddha (she's so cute! I love that her shoes match her dress. aww.):

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:12:38 GMT

I made myself a skirt!

Unfortunately, it does this weird scrunching up thing if I move around at all.

But who cares! I'll wear it when I pretend to be a statue.

I could be a statue for Halloween!

Which, btw, is not so far off.

This is the first real article of clothing I've ever made! :D

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:56:13 GMT

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:15:04 GMT

So last weekend, I journeyed to the exotic Shenandoah Mountains.
There, I came in close contact with several fantastic specimen,
including a doe, a bear, a sunset, a dragon, and a
crazy girl who liked to smash ice cubes at a wall. How exciting!

Sat, 04 Feb 2006 19:39:02 GMT

My piano teacher asks me, "Did you get straight A's?" I say, "Oh, nooo. Nonono." She says, "GOOD! People who get straight A's are soooooooooooooo BO-ring! My mom always got straight A's, and I have never met a duller person." Then her husband says in the epitome of Russian accents, "wooeteboouuurg! vee! Bernice pereptomy veeeleee!! shtaah?" (or something to that effect), and shakes my hand. Later, my piano teacher gives me a creamsicle. And I remember why I still take piano.

Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:51:43 GMT