camp, school, and harry potter

i'm doing a running camp done by a local running store this week. i went today, and dear god, at 6am it was already hot, and they started at 8, which i think is way too late. i'm normally already done, showered, and back asleep by then. but we ran about a half mile away to a park, then into the park a little bit and then split off into groups to run. and i was so stupid. i thought 'well, 3 doesn't seem like enough. let's go with 4.' and that was so dumb of me. i ended up with a group of people on a 4 and a half mile loop. and about a half mile in, things started to look famliar. i was back on part of that 5k i did a few weeks ago. it was the same park, and i was on that same stretch that made me want to scream. it was not a good run. i wore my new shoes, which was a mistake, and i've got blisters to prove it. i have never felt so sick, except for when i actually was sick. i'd like to get my time down by a little bit by the end of the summer, so i'm thinking that if i go earlier in the day, it'll be less hot, so a bit easier. and if i run with friends, too.
then we did strides, which made me miss track a lot.
and a game that involved spinning around a baseball bat (i've seen this on america's funniest homevideos so much, and it was hilarious in person) and running down around a cone and back, which was fun. then back to the store and pizza :) i love pizza.

school starts pretty soon, and i've got mixed feelings about that. i typically do.
i like the first few days of school- getting to know the teachers and classes. but then it goes back into the stupor that makes me so annoyed. i basically hate the routine of getting up everyday to go to a place, to do work, only to be told that i haven't done enough. i like learning, and there's a few classes that i don't mind, but it's just the repetative-ness of everything that bugs me. i hate change, truly, but i like things to be a little different every now and then.
my school's not incredibly boring, football games and spirit week and dances are fun. i love that about school- going to root on your team (even though i don't know much about football. i can follow along alright, but i'm not too great about it) and school spirit and hanging out with friends and dancing.
and i'm really excited for my newspaper class. i took journalism first semester last year, and i loved it. i'm excited to be back there working with journalism. and i love english class, and history. but that's where it stops. i'm horrible at math, science is only interesting to me when we're doing something fun with it, i like the language of spanish but hate learning it, and am very uninterested in health and personal finance. i like seeing my friends (though i tend to get in trouble for talking to them all through class) but would rather just hang out at the mall or movies, rather than having to go to school to see them.
so i think i'll take the most out of summer for now- which i already have plans to do. my friends and i have so many things we want to do that there is no more time for being lazy. we want to go to the waterpark a few times; 6 flags a few times; go to this park that has rocks to climb; see movies; have an all-out wizard rock dance party (several days long- we didn't get to go to wrockstock, thanks to my mom's disapproval) lots of swimming and tanning; go carting; a trip to branson (though that might've been a joke lol) go in search of the tallest, steepest hill ever and run up it; a harry and the potters cocnert; a plain white t's concert; breaking dawn release (at midnight!) my parents want to go to, um, actually i don't remember. springfield? and, somewhere in there, we should probably fit in some time to sleep. and eat. yay summer :)

so it's july 21st. i have a very clear memory of a year ago today (and the day before today a year ago) on july 20th, 2007 (and if you don't know the importance of the 20th and 21st of july, 2007, then i'm not even going to say it. so ha.), i could not sit still at all all day. nothing could hold my interest and i basically walked around with a clock glued to my face. every 2 minutes i'd look at a clock and think '7 hours, 27 minutes' or something (it's not geeky that i'd been doing that for nearly a month) i spent almost the entire day on mugglenet. i tried to read, but it just made me even more excited. i left at about 5 to get a ticket to know how far back in line i'd be (second group of 50. i still have that form.) and then went home to wait some more. i watched the footage of huge releases all over the world on the news with my eyes so wide that i'm surprised that they didn't fall out. i basically spent the day walking around, then getting online to just look at the cover, and looking at the clock. at 10:30 it was damn near unbearable. at 11 we left. i wish i'd left a whole lot sooner, and i will for the encyclopedia release, because there was other stuff to do. when i got there, the store was so crammed that i'd never seen a bookstore in such a state. except for the 5th and 6th releases (i remember watching the 4th release on the news and calling the people dorks, and i don't think they had them for the 3rd, and they certainly didn't for the 2nd and 1st) and there were people everywhere in costume and screaming and there were 2 suits of armor and a knight that called out the time remaining every five minutes (wtf does a knight have to do w/ hp? except for chess) and it was like an explosion at midnight. there was a huge collective scream and bells ringing and it was the coolest thing ever. i had my book at about 12:20 or so (the exact time is written down somewhere) and i clung to it like it was the vaccine to a deadly disease and ran out to get home. then i plopped myself down on the floor (12:30) and did not move until 5:52, except to get a blanket and tissues. at 5:53 i went downstairs (i remember that it was unseasonably cold- i had on a hoodie) and read newspaper articles. it didn't seem real to me that i knew everything about harry, that it was over.
so a year ago today- what were you doing?