interview

interviewing yourself is an awesome blog format.

q: so, amy, do you still have a michael phelps thing?
a: isn't he coming out on a wheaties box? i don't even like wheaties, but i'm going to buy that. and, eventually, i'm getting that one shirt. it has his face on it. i want to walk around with michael phelps's face on my shirt!

q: do you realize how weird that is?
a: deal.

q: so, got a homecoming dress yet?
a: YES. it's amazing. i'm actually looking forward to wearing this dress more than the dance.

q: what color are your shorts?
a: some weird purply color! it's amazing!

q: what's tomorrow?
a: why, i believe it's free hug day! which should get moved to september 2nd, due to the lack of school on the first.

q: is this weird?
a: um, yeah.

q: should it continue?
a: duh!

q: so, what kind of coffee did you have today?
a: cookie coffee! it was iced and had oreos in it! so good!

q: can you shut up now?
a: fine.

i got lost in love and shagged at school and HOLY CRAP JOHN AND HANK

at xc the girls that could drive went to go over to their cars to go to castlewood, and carrie, molly, and maggie went to follow meredith. caroline, megan and i, of course, chased after them because, hey, we like riding with meredith. so we left and got onto manchester, and she turned and i was like "it this where it is?" but i figured that my dad's map thing sent him a million miles away that one time he took me there. but then we pulled into a park and started to drive around. there was no one there, so we were like "oh, we must be the first ones here." and we kind of drove around until we figured that we had left after several people. so caroline called aimee, and she said that they weren't there yet, but we were meeting at the 2nd pavillion. we went back to both pavillions, and there was no one there. it really did not look like castlewood, so i asked meredith if she was sure it was. she said that it was, so i was like "ok, i really know nothing anyway." and caroline pointed out that she remembered the bathrooms. but it really was starting to be weird, and meredith started second guessing herself, so caroline called aimee again. and we were definetly in the wrong place.
we pulled out of the park and looked back to see the name of it. the sign said "love park," and we all burst out laughing like nuts. meredith was kind of embarassed, but we kept saying that we really did think it was amazing. so caroline was tryign to get directoins from cutelli via phone, and she really is not good at directions lol so cutelli's like "just go home!" and meredith took us back to the school and she went home. we went down to the track (with a true intention of running) and actually ended up walking. but we shagged 1! we felt cool.
i was still in a good mood until my parents wouldn't let me go to caroline's house to see a movie with the rest of the sophmore xc girls. but then i got on youtube and hank said he was on blogtv. i was, of course, in a waiting room, but he said that john was announcing tour de nerdfighting dates today!
so after practice (800 repeats at 6am.... wtf....) i got on blogtv, shaking (literally) with anticipation, and then john started listing, and he goes "we will definetly be on november third in st. louis..." and i jumped up and started SCREAMING. like at the top of my lungs screeching and jumping. OH. MY. GOD.
WE'RE GOING TO MEET HANK AND JOHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOVEMBER THIRD. OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
allow me to fangirl. i'm incredibly happy at the moment.

um?

i fail at posting.
and, apparently, i fail at pool too. katelyn kicked my ass last night.

current anger:
i so don't want to go to school tomorrow
i'm hungry and can't find anything that i want to eat
wtf shin?!

current happy:
PLAIN WHITE T'S
today is both john green and rupert grint's birthdays! one incredibly intelligent guy that writes beautifully and one incredibly beautiful younger guy that is an incredible actor and i have loved since i was 8.
possibly getting a new car. sweet.

the point of this post? nothing. i'm so bored. but i like being bored.
i was looking back over my yearbook from last year, and i have to say, i had a pretty good year. and i think i've changed a lot sicne the beginning of last year. i used to be kind of timid and now i'm just annoyingly loud. i'm maybe not as focused on my studies anymore, but i kind of try to be. my fashion sense is so much better (it has especially changed a lot since i moved here. i did not know anything in 8th grade.) i want this year to be ever better! let's make this our best year ever. let's put our all into our various sports, make those grades without killing ourselves, and get involved more. let's get into nhs. let's have parties and let's be as careless as teenagers are supposed to be (but not in a stupid way. because we're not stupid.) let's make this one count.

i'm pretty pissed that harry potter isn't coming out until july. that's a whole year away. fuck you, wb. and what's adding insult to injury, the twilight movie is coming out on november 21st now. that was harry's spot. i'm kind of over twilight. breaking dawn set me over the edge, and i just don't care anymore. bella is stupid, edward's a stalking creeper, jacob falls in love with babies, and stephenie meyer is so stuck up. if i see the movie, i'd probably end up throwing something at the screen. but i seriously cannot wait for harry potter! i love love the sixth book. carrie is strongly against harry/ginny, but i love that. i never saw it coming and when harry first started to like it, the big "duh" hit me like a ton of bricks. and i find ron/lavender pretty funny. but does this mean that the second part of the 7th movie won't come out until 2012 now? we'll be in college then! and they started when we were in 3rd grade! this series has taken way too long to produce as movies.
rambling, amy? yes.

http://www.last.fm/music/Ministry+of+Magic

new school year

i miss summer.
what's not fair: my friends in tampa started school yesterday and got a hurricane day today. they got their second day off! and i have to wait until like december until snow days. not. fair.

so most of my teachers seem ok. and the classes don't feel like they're going to kill me. it's just the fact that i have to be there. i love summer, having nothing to do and no responsibilites. i'm so lazy that sometimes it's sad. i hate that beginning of the year stupor, where you're trying to fall back into the pattern of things. the days seem sooo long. like by 7th hour, 1st hour feels like it must have been a year ago. and i really don't like having first lunch. by 7th hour i'm already hungry again and the second half of the day seems longer when you have 3 classes instead of 2. plus i miss lunches last year, where half of our conversations had to do with twilight (i removed that series from all of my favorites list. breaking dawn ruined it for me.)

but i'm in such a good mood right now, because of this mtv video: http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1592999&vid=266890
that made me so happy!

ALSO: TEAM DEAN!
it's so cool that we won a SIGNED POSTER!!!! it would've been even better to have won a day with dean, but that would've been a little weird. i imagine the meeting would go like this:
dean: so, hi!
carrie: hi!
me: um.
laura: hello!
maggie: hi?
molly: so... yeah.
dean: so, you girls want to go for a run?
me: well... it's kind of hot.
dean: oh...
carrie: we could... um...
laura: we could go later in the evening, when it's cooler!
dean: that's the spirit!
maggie: i don't want to run
molly: so, uh...
me: i'm hungry. let's go to dairy queen! SHOTGUN!
carrie: damn you!
molly: I CALL IT ON THE WAY BACK!
dean: wtf? *random insight into his mind, which i'm sure is an amazing place: this is very awkward*

(random cutelli: GET ON THE GRAVY TRAIN!)

MICHAEL PHELPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

michael phelps amazes me. it was kind of funny, how stressful i felt when he was swimming, and he looked so cool and calm.
but WOW. last night we were sitting in molly and maggie's basement, literally counting down the minutes until michael phelps came on, and then started screaming like nuts when he came out, and when he started sswimming we started doing that tense thing, where you clutch stuff and your eyes get all wide and we were screaming during the entire relay, and then lezak dove in, and it was all on him, and by this point we were screeching and the other guy was so close and then HE. WON.
and we exploded. we all leapt up and hope, megan, carrie, and i started jumping up and down on the couch just screeching those enormous fangirly screams and leaping everywhere, and it was amazing. michael phelps is just the coolest person ever. i think i love him.

goals

much as i would love to deny it, school is very, very soon. these are the last 2 days of absolute freedom before xc starts on monday (and due to nuevos amigos, i get to go straight from that to orientation stuff monday and tuesday. oh boy.) and it's back to school on thursday.
i was at school today, getting my yearbook, and they were getting everything situated again, setting things back up, and all i wanted to do was tear it all down. i love my routine of doing nothing. even though i get up really early, half of the time i go back to bed. but i like having nothing that i have to do. wake up, run, eat, sleep, hang out with friends. good rhythm! and now... ugh.

so i do, of course, have my yearly school year goals, this time in blog form, so i know that i can't just say that i forgot them, when, really, i just got lazy.

School Goals:
* no b's. a's and h's. i don't care how freaking hard it is, i better do this.
* at least one h, either semester. just one tiny little h. just one.
* actually be involved in history club. yes, it did start out that i joined because i liked the shirts. but history is, actually, pretty cool. and mrs. boles could totally tell that i just wanted the shirt.

Running Goals:
* 6:45 mile. um?
* 24:00 5k. i don't want to push it, and i might come back and revise this after i get in some more timing, because i know i've changed since the last time i timed something.
* i'm not quite sure about track goals... more later.

Misc. Goals:
* get 50k for nanowrimo! actually write and pace this year, instead of getting behind, cramming like freaking nuts, and then just quitting.
* at least one article in the pathfinder. should this be in school?
* this is kind of school, but it doesn't actually need to be done yet, i'm just going to do it anyway. acts. i know that i can take them soon, and i want, um, 26? for my first time. i think 27 is automatic admission into mizzou, which would make things really, really easy.

Goal That Will Make All of This Possible:
* um, don't die in the attempt.

braces free :D

so i am offically rid of the burden that is braces!!!
i got them off yesterday, and have been eating crap ever since, mostly because i can. giant pretzel sticks that i don't have to snap apart, caramel popcorn, corn on the cob (well, that's not crap)
it feels really weird to bite ice, and i even went to put my rubber bands on and fumbled for a second until i realized that i don't need them anymore.
i look really different!

weird dream

i had the weirdest dream today.
i'm dog/house/bird sitting while my aunt and uncle are away, so i was at their house, keeping teh dog (bandit) and the bird (lily) company when i fell asleep on their couch. first i was at a party at katherine's house, and no one was very nice to me, which was seriously pissing me off. then i "woke up" (but i didn't really) and i was in the chair and i looked up at my mom and asked how i got there and she said she didn't know. then i was at carrie's house, only that it was still my aunt and uncle's house, i just thought it was hers. so i started wondering why i was sleeping on the couch when her large and comfortable bed was down the hall, away from the barking dog and screeching bird. and then i was at katherine's, and all these little kids were running and i was trying to chase them, but i couldn't catch them. so i went upstairs with katherine and carrie and ran around the corner and down the hall and opened the door to an unfamliar room (which should have been katherine's) and she and carrie started laughing and i looked around and din't recognize where i was. katherine said that they re-did it, and i got really mad that she didn't tell me and was laughing like a crazy person. so we went into her real room and turned on the tv, and muse was playing! so i moved over towards carrie and started singing, and she said "will amy please stop yelling!" and she never ever yells at me, so that was the last straw, and i left. and suddenly i was on this weird road trip with my parents, but they were in the car and i was running alongside it. when they stopped for gas, i really did wake up.
i looked around, looked at my mom, and rolled off the couch. i thought that it was probably really late, but my mom said that i had only been asleep for a half hour. so i thought maybe i was still dreaming, and i pinched myself. it hurt. so i was awake.
that was a really weird and complicated dream to have in 30 minutes.

Harry and the Potters

ok. wow.
the harry and the potters concert tonight was so freaking epic.
they had uncle monsterface and math the band play short sets before them, but there wasn't a huge amount of enthusiasm for these. i mean, there was jumping and screaming, but nothing compared to what came after.
because after uncle monsterface and math the band got off, harry and the potters set up, and they freaking rocked the place. everyone crowded the stage so that it was nearly mosh-pit like. screeching. jumping dancing. awesome music. everything was just this blast of music and dancing like crazy and jumping up and down. i mean, get a huge group together of people who really like a band. give them the band live, music pulsing, their friends right there, and an incredible amount of energy. see what happens. i don't have to see, i just did. it was just.... i can't describe how amazing it was. and harry and the potters aren't even my favorite. if the ministry of magic, or moaning myrtles, or parselmouths, or marked as his equal were here, it'd be 10 million times better, which is almost inconceivable. plus i got a save ginny weasley shirt!
it took my mind off of the epic fail of breaking dawn.

seriously, stephenie? seriously?

SPOILERS BELOW




i am very disappointed.
extremely. about 200 pages into breaking dawn i wanted to scream.

so i went into the book thinking that maybe the characters wouldn't seem to stupid in this one. that maybe edward would grow a personality. that maybe bella would realize she was throwing away her life, and everything her parents wanted for her, and hurting her parents and would maybe wise up and tell edward to beat it.
but, of course, it did not go like that.

this is where the spoilers start. i found it pretty stupid that they honeymooned on a island, especially one named after esme. 50 pages in and i already smelled a bad fanfic. but it wasn't a fanfic, this was the real breaking dawn. crap.
then the laughing started. (ok, the laughing started on the first page of chapter 2, where i started at borders with laura while waiting for carrie to get her book, and laura and i started laughing like maniacs to a hilarious scene. we were crying laughing. people were looking.) pregnant? really? so those things i had passed off as fake spoilers, because i found them too stupidly ridiculous to be true, actually were real. wow. and then it just ended.
jacob's pov?! i don't WANT jacob's pov! the twilight series centers around bella, not a sexual predator giant dog. (jacob bashing is almost as fun as edward bashing) and it went on like that forever. that's when i got really mad. had i seriously waited months and months for this? i hated the first half of the book. it was stupid. a baby thriving off of bella, slowly killing her? bella sipping down blood? not wanting people to help her? wow. just wow. it was beginning to really sound like a horrible fanfic and one of those dvds they sell at the walmart checkout line for a dollar. i was really mad. i hadn't braved the fangirls for this (even though i had a fantastic time at the release- more below :)) and edward seriously just plunged a needle into bella's hard to turn her into a vampire? now it's just an uncreative fanfic.
although i was actually happy to see him imprint on nessie. (though i prefer her middle name- carlie. much better.) that part, at least was good, although i was expecting him to imprint on leah.
then, finally, bella's pov. and it was no better. i was interested in her new senses, but i felt that she acclimated too quickly. everything felt too choppy and too quick, like she was rushing. and bella is stupid. i felt kinda bad for jasper, though. but seeing and tasting dust? come on.
and the entire thing with the volturi was unneeded. it was stupid filler and was just a bunch of people standing around arguing.
everytime i think about it i just get so mad. i went to the release party. i got home at 1:30 and stayed up reading it until 7:30 in the morning (which was actually a long time, but it took me a while to get through a lot of the parts. specifically the stupid ones. which were 85% of it.) i went running at 8 and now it's 11 at night. and yesterday i got up at 7, so i've been 40 hours with no sleep.


SPOILERS ENDED
ok, now to the fun part!

the release party was AWESOME.

we made signs insulting edward and jacob (which were vandalized by unintelligent "huh?"s and "but edward's hawt"s really? he's pretty? well that changes everything. who cares if he's a blood sucking vapid stalker if he's cute.) and hid behind displays to see people's responses.
this is laura's very well written letter (that was vandalized by people who cannot read or think for themselves)
they was a huge amount of screaming at midnight, and we screamed along, partly because screaming is fun, and also because we were making fun of people. they did not realize we were making fun of them. then it was our turn to be fangirly when laura and i got ours and went to a corner to read while carrie stood in line for her book. but there were these girls a few feet from us flipping open to random pages and reading out loud. people were giving them horrible looks and we kept asking them to stop and were plugging our ears and they just looked at us. stupid people annoy me. a lot.

breaking dawn and harry and the potters

breaking dawn tonight!!! i'm excited, but definetly not as excited as i was for any of the harry potters. i've been hearing some funny fake spoilers, too, this is a convo in yahoo answers:
random person: i hear bella gets pregnant!
random weirdo: WTF edward's an incubus?
i had to look that up on wikipedia, and it says: "In Western medieval legend, an incubus (plural incubi) is a demon in male form supposed to lie upon sleepers, especially women, in order to have sexual intercourse with them."
HOLY CRAP THAT'S HILARIOUS. i almost wish edward was that, just because everything would get quite funny.
"some sources indicate that it may be identified by its unnaturally cold penis" edward is cold- he's a vampire. can he be BOTH?!
ok. i really do hope that by some weird twist all that is true. that would ruin the books, of course, but the fangirls would get really upset, and they're creepy. i don't really like any of the characters. team jacob? no he's a loser. team edward? no he's a creeper and a stalker and also a loser. bella's not in love with him- she's obsessed with him! TEAM ERIC YORKIE. eric, at least, i can give a break. he's not quite mike newton level creepy, and if he was better groomed he'd be good.
the release party should be fun, though!

TOMORROW.
HARRY AND THE POTTERS!
now, hatp are definetly not my favorite wrock band (my favorites are: ministry of magic, marked as his equal, oliver boyd and the rememberalls, roonil wazlib, the moaning myrtles, and the parselmouths), but they're pretty cool. and i've never been to a wrock concert!