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Have you heard the recording of the guy who tried to cancel his AOL account?  If you havent, you have to go watch the news story about it... its sooo funny!!!  my dad sent me this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIVZ9b0RgmY  .  oh dear. *giggles*  poor guy.

i'm off to work in half an hour!

im sleeeeepy *yawn* and my legs are tired...

but I'm earning money! yay!!!  :)

and i have a new nickname!  my coworkers refer to me as Gladdy (it started as Smiley, but then they heard my last name... and you know the rest), although half the time they call me margaret instead by mistake. why, i dont know, cause i dont look at all like her, and we havent worked there together, but whatever. its awesome, cause i respond to it!!! so it all works out.

so yeah.  fireworks last night were beautiful, and it was fun, cause i got to hang out with margaret and becky during them, and then we tried to do five-year-old sparklers, which half worked, and it was a good time :) (although i missed contra, and that was sad... but at least i missed contra FOR something... and it was a something that was awesome!)

im off to margarets now!!! YAY!

HAPPY 4TH!

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[	music	|	When The Stars Go Blue	]

YIPPEE! My mouth and I are now getting along!!!  It seems to have stopped swelling, and so far it hasn’t bruised, and I’m happy!  My mom called the doctor today wondering how much longer I should take Advil, since it’s worn off at this point and my mouth doesn’t hurt, and the doctor said I should definitely keep taking it, then asked how much other pain medication I was on.  When my mom said none, the doctor was apparently extremely surprised and said that was very unusual- yay! My mouth really doesn’t hurt anymore, and I don’t have any medication in me!!!  I think it was going to book club that helped it- I got yummy raspberry ice cream there, and I got to listen to good conversation, and that should make anything better, right?

So anyway…  for people who keep asking me my summer schedule, this is it:

This weekend I might go to Woods Hole for Friday through Sunday early morning, assuming my mouth is still happy (Margaret… may I?)

June 24à Leave for Woods Hole, Cape Cod (people better be coming to visit me there, cause I’m not saying goodbye to everyone here before I leave for Woods Hole, and I won’t be coming back here after it to say goodbye!)

August 5-12à Pinewoods for E&A week

August 12à Head to Bard for the three-week orientation!  Maybe I can sneak home for my birthday on September 2, but that’s probably hopeful thinking…

Oh, and I’m amused, cause Aeryn sent me an e-mail from India that says,

“don't have time to write much, but you
should know you have a nine year old admirer here in Kashyem. I showed
him pictures of you and he thinks you are the most beautiful person in
the world. He kept one picture and he's taken to frequently kissing
it. It's rather crazy.”

Oh wonderful! I have an admirer!!! :P  Silly little kids!
 



I'm also amused that I banged my arm on a fence playing frisbee over a week ago and it hurt for about a week, and now 
that it doesn't really hurt anymore, everyone keeps exclaiming, "Oh, what happened to your arm?!"  bruises are strange things-
why aren't they there when it hurts the most?!

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[	music	|	Why Do Fools Fall In Love	]

Wow- yesterday was an interesting day.  Started off with a physical at 8:30 in the morning where I got blood taken and a shot… I’m terrible with that sorta thing, so that wasn’t a nice way to start off my morning!  Then I got to school assuming that I was late to math, and freaked out cause my class wasn’t in its room… fortunately, Kenny found me as I was freaking out, and informed me that they had just had a lecture about drugs and alcohol in the auditorium, so it was about to be g block.  Phew!

Anyway, the rest of the school day was pretty boring… but risso, swanson, and I, after school, went to the mall (I hadn’t been there in… probably about a year!) and that was fun, but malls have a way of annoying me… oh well. Hanging out with the two of them is always hilarious, and that was wonderful. 

Then I got home, and I was talking to Aeryn, who leaves on Monday for India for two months.  Aeryn had gone back and visited the school (Oak Meadow Montessori) that we had attended from first through sixth grade, and she ran into a teacher that we had known from sixth grade.  She inquired after another teacher that we had both loved, Miss Treanna Clinton, and found out that she had passed away a few years ago in a remote village in Africa.  Her family didn’t even find out until a couple months after her death, since it was such a remote village. AHHH! You have to understand, Miss Clinton is that one teacher that I’ll always remember, and I was just talking to my mom a few months ago about how I wanted to find her and tell her that.  Aeryn told me that Miss Clinton had passed away, I hung up the phone… and burst into tears.  Wow.  Miss Clinton was amazing.  She taught us the coolest things ever.  She taught us to stuff our pants with leaves for insulation if we were ever really cold. She even demonstrated doing so, and then couldn’t get them all out again!  It was hilarious.  She also showed us different methods for building a fire, taught us some Swahili (such as the word “jambo”), played soccer with the guys every recess, brought us on a canoe trip (a true feat when you have lots of silly ten year olds to deal with), and, on a walk around Walden Pond, she tried to get us to understand the concept of using peripheral vision by having us walk around with our hands out to the sides of our eyes.  She was my favorite teacher.  She used to tease me whenever I asked her a question…. For example, I remember asking her “May I go to the bathroom,” and her saying, “No.” and then bursting into laughter, and saying “Of course you can!”  She even wrote in my yearbook about how much she loved teasing me. That was our unique relationship.  

As Aeryn said, Miss Clinton seemed “invincible,” and there was no reason why she shouldn’t have, since she was extremely young, bright, and driven.  She was amazing, and there is no way I’ll ever forget what she taught me.  

 So anyway, I got over that unfortunate surprise, and then went and got dinner with Alan at an Indian restaurant in Lexington.  He is really a great guy to be friends with.  I couldn’t stop laughing for about three quarters of the meal.  It was much fun, and it really cheered me up!  Yay!

Okay… I want breakfast!  *tummy growls* Going to go find food!