a beautiful thing

french braiding... set a record! braided and tucked eight girls, including Katie and Jessica.

mime-reading. awesome.

swing dancing on asphalt. new experience.

cleaning my room.

hearing something buzzing on my desk, and finding a (my) cell phone... thank you Grandma & Grandpa :)

swing dancing again. eep.

singing abbreviated hymns (for the sake of the inability to remember all the words) and praise & worship songs on the car ride home.

David's attempts to match pitch with me.

falling apart laughing.

home.

finally.

sleep.

I hope.

Kathryne

Bessstttttt :)

AP Lit test > AP Calc test
AP Lit essays > SAT essays
Elizabeth Barrett Browning > most anybody else*

After school was awesome as well. I did my government homework outside, while throwing a ball for Tag. Then I went to the backyard and alternately read my book while swinging, and chased Tag around the backyard-which-has-yet-to-be-mowed in my bare feet.
Mar.ve.lous.


Kathryne

*thank you, AP Lit test, for exposing me to poetry! would have been nice to study it... sometime... besides that one month at the beginning of this year.

Dear Christine,

Life in Bel Air this year has been horrible.
I might even go so far as to say, it's deplorable.
Every time I want so bad to see you
I must slap my own hand and say, "Stop! I will beat you!"
"If you do not stop this abominable wish
To see someone so far away as Africa... ish...
You will be miserable, take it from me
I've been there, you know, the depths I have seen--
The depths of the pit of Hell and despair."
(Okay, this drama thing is going nowhere)
But alas, through all of my self-reprobation,
I miss you; my heart is one huge conflagration.
It's burning and aching... oh, no, here we go...
Melodrama went out three decades ago.
Regardless, my dear, Christine, my friend,
I miss you a lot. So this poem I send.
My yearning for you is true ever-present;
Without you, it's quite hard to be effervescent.
So come back at your earliest convenience
For I miss you with all of my love and allegiance.


Kathryne

[insert heart symbol that is HTML-incorrect here]

Yesterday
-The Awkward Feely Conversation, during which Rachel and I both tripped over things because it was so Awkward and about Feelings
-"Rachel... the lawn gnome trucker!!!"
-Watched Titanic, finally. I enjoyed it thoroughly; it was a work of art. The motif of the hands is brilliant.
-Sleepover with Megan!

Today
-Saw Caleb a bunch for the first time in a while :)
-Began working on part of Christine's halfway present... yes, there will be one. muahaha. ha. ha.
-Learned tandem Charleston. The lead part. Partially. Ish. But it was fun. :)
-"Don't drool on me!" (my sister cracks me up)
-Dancing.
-Dancing in my sparkly outfit.
-Dancing lots of times and only hitting Mark in the face once :P
-Did I mention dancing?
-DADDY IS HOME!!!!<3

Kathryne

sledding with friends

1) Went to the library and got lots of materials for my thesis... WHICH IS TAKING FORM (slowly, but it's getting there).

2) Almost convinced my mom to paint the bathroom purple... again, getting there.

3) Wend sledding with friends :) Blake, Colin, Daniel, David, Mark... and Christine, of course. Vicariously.

I didn't sled much, because the trails were a little steep for the excessive foliage covering them (and when I did try it was inevitably a FAIL), but I had fun taking pictures and walking around.

Kathryne

PS- I am going to take MRWP with me to Europe and have the Pope sign it. Wouldn't you like that, Christine?

swing!

fabulous evening.

I had not danced in, like, 40 days. And it's weird that that would matter to me at all. I think I have been officially addicted... or something.

Christine, I danced for you! But I did not go so far as to ask *cough* people you normally would have danced with. Since I do not ask guys and *cough* guys do not always like to be asked.

Too many things made me smile. I spent some time sitting in a corner with my book feeling very lonely... it is funny how that can be true when you are surrounded by people... but about 15 minutes later a song with really ridiculous bass came on and forced me out of hiding. And I became grateful for that soon afterward. I think I was like yea close to effervescent. Almost. And when I was in the kitchen refilling water pitchers I thought I saw Christine, like legit saw her, like she was there, but then I walked closer and realized it was not. Funny how delusional you can get at these times.

Kathryne

mmmmmmhahahah

I finished a Christmas present today. For a certain doofus.

:D

Kathryne

oddities

"Megan, cease the Wheelock's remix, please."

-Mr. C

I BEAT MOM AND DAVID IN BOGGLE! WHEEEEEE!!!!! (well, one round... barely... BUT STILL.)

My afternoon craft project:

...to last me until Christine gets home (the big black one stands for 9 days in EUROPE!)

I will upload pictures periodically as it shrinks, oh joyous thing!

Kathryne

chipper :)

I have decided : I like the Charleston. And I like actually dancing at swing dance. It's a good feeling. Maybe I should leave early more often.

(Math: I dance more in the beginning, always. If I leave at 8:30, that means I probably spent about 75% of my time actually moving. If I leave at 10:30, it might be more like 30-40%. And did you know that 84% of all statistics are made up? but I'd say I'm close.)

And then when I ride home I can stare up at the clouds like the congealing, curdling clumps of brownish charcoal that they are. It's rather pleasant.

I Learned...

You should expect college interviewers to talk to you about politics and religion.

Kathryne

best night.

Question:

What happens when you have 22 schoolkids (aged 7-17) in a small room for 4 hours with minimal adult supervision?

Answer:

Not Homework

Question:

What happens when the 9 oldest (aged 13-17) eat packets of sugar because the dinner came late and then sit on the floor entertaining themselves?

Answer:

A massive Silly Bandz war, laughing fits lasting for 5+ minutes, chocolate syrup threats, carved mahogany peanut butter dispensers, dining on Oscar the Hamster, sleeping on the floor...

Oh, and Not Homework.

Question:

Where on Earth were you?!

Answer:

A very ritzy country club. And yes, I am serious.

Question:

Why were you there?

Answer:

We sang a couple of songs for the school banquet. We sounded fabulous too <3

(lol All For Jesus awkward silence at the beginning AND end :P)

Question:

...

Answer:

I CAN HEAR MY ECHO! FWWOOOOO!

Kathryne

the days since...

The Good:

every single epic thing.

photoshoot*~

swing dance~

barn dance~

mime performance :)

The Bad:

tried to get homework done at the library, and this... (I blocked out some of the numbers for privacy's sake :P)

The Random:

Dan, on Friday, during MadLibs... "I'm sorry, I can't help that I'm so SEXY."

...lol

Kathryne

* if you can't tell, we were the four seasons.

PS- Christine, I adore you, for real.

UmmmyesIlovemylife.

...because JESUS is Life :D

(how cheesy is that, and yet how true?)

seriously. I have been so incredibly effervescent since last night... maybe even since before that... I think it was since I put on my gypsy shirt in the afternoon, yes?

either way...

today planned fun things and made fun things and FINISHED THE MIDDLEMARCH ESSAY and had a bad hair day and didn't really care.

Kathryne

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christine & Erin came over today to hang with me & Kristen. Went to Joanne's and did fabulous, secretive things. And played with Photobooth. And stuff.

Then we went to THE MOST AWESOME WORSHIP/CONCERT EVER. Robin Mark, btw. I'd had the thing on my calendar since January, and it CAME!!!

So, I met the guy afterwards. He is less intimidating in person than on stage. But he is also very kind. I forgot my CD at home and had nothing signable in my purse. At a stroke of genius, I asked Colin if he still had the Motivational Red Wall Paint.

Can you guess what I did?

I'll take that as a "maybe."

I asked Robin to sign it. He wrote a message on the rim of the lid, and signed his name on the top, side, and bottom. Oh, he's so very cool. Kristina asked him, "have you ever been asked to sign wall paint before?" He said, "no, this is a first." LOL

Kathryne

Guess which one I am! hint: Anticonformity will eat your soulllllllll!!!!!

WHEEEE!!! :D

I have my FIRST subscriber to Veloquence on Toast!!!! WHEEE!! (actually, the sound in my head is more like "waaaaah" but when you write it in all caps like that it looks like crying-noises instead of happy-noises. and it's definitely happy.)

...and don't go ruining my fun telling me it's "only Rachel." Yes I KNOW it's Rachel, but... come on... this is Princess we're talking about! royalty has subscribed to my blog! :)

ooooh and then after LIT (yes! Love LIT! but, sad! last meeting... sigh!) SANDY is sleeping over! yay for Africa buddies! and Barbie movies! and other fun things which will happen if I can stay awake past 11 o'clock!

I am rather happy; did you get that?

Kathryne

TOO MUCH TO SAY!!

there was
waking up to the smell of apple french toast [!!!!!!!!!!]
being a lunatic [!!!!!!!!!!!]
walking around the bay [!!!!!!!!!!]
walking to Rita's [!!!!!!!!!]
in full Civil War regalia with Christine & Erin & Jennifer [!!!!!!!!!!!!]
Alice in Wonderland [!!!!!!!!!]
the creek [!!!!!!!!!]
driving to nowhere [!!!!!!!!!]

the coral is taking over my mind, although 'tis still predominantly purple.

...and, at the moment, sleepy, and I have to leave for work at 7 in the morning.

ARRIVIDERCI.

Kathryne

crazywonderfuleffervescentLA!

I am... rapturous! And buoyant and blissful!

and... effervescent! and again I am trying really hard not to go all exclamation-point-crazy on you, because I know it's so annoying. But... [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Beyond that intangible and inexplicable [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!], today was nice.

My dad and I told stories at dinner. Mostly my dad did, and I listened.

Apparently by the time I was 2 I knew that "was" and "were" were forms of the "to be" verb, and that "power" goes with "mighty" :P

Aaaaand TOMORROW is going to be AWESOME aaaand WEDNESDAY is going to be MOST EPIC aaaannd THURSDAY ...I go back to work but THAT'S OKAY! :)

Kathryne

I love life.

my life is crazy wonderful.

the people in my life are crazy wonderful. mostly crazy, but close enough.

I wore my happy skirt today.

I am trying really hard not to use exclamation points, but inside I am going [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

and my face hurts because I have been smiling all day.

:)

Kathryne

oh... my... :D

I am just so, so, so incredibly smiley, and blessed, and happy, and... :)

also, today was great. Lizzy had a "Shop Swap" and a bunch of us got together and set up all of our clothes we didn't ever wear/really want like a store and went shopping for freeeeee in each others' clothes. it was cool. I got rid of a bunch of stuff (like Andee's hand-me-down Homecoming dress I never wore), and I got a bunch of stuff (like my first ever yellow dress... I never wear yellow. ever).

Kathryne

Phenomenal Evening :)

I saw (in chronological order)~

BlakeMarkLiviColinChristineErinCavemanDavidStephanieKristina

Which was wonderful.

We talked about books

and things

and ate brownies

which were dropped into

FUNNEL CAKE

batter

which was deep-fried

by my amazing sister!

who also went swimming

with me and

other people

who always make me smile

especially when talking of unions

and things

etc

:)

Kathryne

awesome afternoon :)

beautiful, wonderful afternoon.

HAPPY THINGS:

watched a movie

ate Ramen!

saw Megan

finished Superlatives

composed menu music for class DVD on GarageBand

ate pasta

saw Christine!!

saw Sandy!!!

organized mime gloves

eating snowball

going to bed early

SAT II tests tomorrow! I am psyched. Math 2 & Lit... ought to be fun.

Kathryne