Sock Hop

epic.

legs tired.

was on the sewing machine for 5 hours.

then decorated and socialized and danced for another 6.

it was fun.

but my legs hurt.

Caleb danced! As did Wesley! And Mrs. Bond! I am proud of them.

and good to see Sandy :)

Kathryne

great day.

Bible Force.
Church.
Dancing.
Driving around Baltimore.
Concert at the Meyerhoff...!
Gorgeous sunset.
ALIARJFELLKJIFINISHEDPRODUCTDESCRIPTIONS! think: 220 descriptions of these.

Kathryne

Oh, and nobigdealbut...

...yeah.

slow day

The world will never know all of the things that make me smile.

Except Christine, because I am writing them all down. Most of them, anyway.

I finally cleaned my room. I was planning on vacuuming before I went to bed, but both of my parents are asleep and I think that would be a bad idea.

Oh, um... I talked to a lot of people today. Which was cool. and MEGANISBACKHALLELUJAH<3

(not that the Winter Formal would die without her or anything...)

Kathryne

Sundays are awesome

I love, love, love the feeling of "I finished all of my homework and housework yesterday and now I can do WHATEVER I want to with my Sunday."

Including spontaneous plans to make trips to obscure state parks in northern Harford County. That's fun.

Note: I am not as bad a videographer as some of the shots would indicate. I just had to use some... uh... creative cropping. Let's just say that graffiti is rarely clean.

Also Note: I tried really hard to find a good song that was the right length to put this video to. The next closest thing I could find was Sugar Plum Fairy music, and I know how Princess feels about the misuse of THAT. :P So suffer through some Veggie Tales, it'll be okay.

Kathryne

PS- new post on Veloquence. Check it out.

mmmmmmhahahah

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

:D

Kathryne

re-

rested.

revived.

refueled.

rededicated.

Today was really, really good. I just felt... happy. And like I could breathe, and talk to people, and not worry about must-go-straight-to-choir-so-I-can-eat-before-I-do-my-homework-so-that-I-can-write-another-college-essay-before-bed-if-I-even-get-to-bed.

Seriously, I am glad that the concert and my college applications are just... done.

Next big hurdle?

Senior Thesis... yay. But that's not due until March. Who's up for 28-32 pages? I feel like a baby, but when I think that that's 12 pages longer than last year... and about something I am not-as-passionate about... yeesh. But we shan't talk about that.

I TALKED TO CHRISTINE TODAY <3

Kathryne

almost the end.

Almost the end of break.

My homework is complete (HALLELUJAH! ...except for Latin studying, and ofcourseimgoingtodothateventuallywhatareyoutalkingabout?)

My room is almost clean (just kidding. I'm about to do that.)

I read the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy.

I wrote way too many pages in the Christine-book.

I stayed at home and rested and it is all so wonderful :)

This has been almost the best break ever.

imissyouchristine.

Kathryne

i can has depth perception?

driving at night = >.<

when the lights are staggered just right and your eyes are blurred just enough that you cannot tell if the green light or the red light is the one directly in front of you = >.<

BUT HEY it's New Year's Eve. I did have fun today. Vandalism is good exercise :P

New Year's Resolutions:

1. Find something better to do on New Year's Eve.
2. Develop a sense of direction greater than what I have.
3. Develop depth perception greater than what I have. Don't die.
4. Learn how to be passionate.
5. Travel the world. (or, just make good use of my time in EUROPE ...!)
6. Make lists exclusively of either 3 or a factor of 50 (but not 1 or 2).
7. Read every single book C. S. Lewis ever wrote.
8. Learn how to play an instrument like guitar, banjo, ukulele, or the like.
9. Use every page in the Christine-book. EVERY. ONE.
10. Do most everything more, better, faster, truer. Except Facebook, which I ought to do less.

THE END.

Of, like, everything.

This list.

This post.

This day.

This year.

This chance for me to prove my normalcy.

Just kidding, y'all wouldn't believe I was normal even if I bought Hollister jeans and straightened my hair and got straight Bs.

Kathryne

le finis. + et al.

finished and REALLY turned in college apps, this time.

working through LotR. very good stuff.

played Scrabble with David and didn't lose (although, we didn't exactly finish the game).

played Boggle with David & the family and lost horrendously.

I still like Boggle. even though I rarely win. and by rarely I mean practically-never.

Kathryne

bookish

Today I wrote.

And today I read.

And today I FINISHED Native Son (loathsome thing).

And today I continued the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which is not half so inane as certain acquaintances of mine would make it out to be.

And it was marvelous. Why cannot Christmas break be just a little bit longer?

Kathryne

Perfect.ish.

-last day of school yesterday? yesss.
-concert practice for 4 hours? awesome.
-starting one song... for the first time... 20 minutes before show? cool.
-Christmas concert? fabulous.
-cast party, eating cheese and warding off Doug's awkward comments? delightful.
-school Christmas party? better than actual classes.
-re-watching Christmas concert? a few painful spots of dissonance, but otherwise wonderful.
-Winter Solstice bonfire? superb.
-Christine not there for any of it? TRAGIC.

imissyou.

Kathryne

Thankful

...for grandparents, who always seem to have the best-smelling hand soap
...for feeling satisfied with the Common App and never bothering with it again
...for fluffy hair that doesn't make my head hurt
...for GRAETERS <3
...for a good excuse to listen to Christmas music (as if I've needed one for the past month)
...for fantastic friends who don't always take me seriously
...for rain that looks like glitter on the front lawn

:)

Kathryne

Something I Learned

I am killing the "Good/Bad/Random" form for a while. I am going back to "something that made me smile," plus the new "I Learned..." section. I do enjoy learning things, so I am setting out to learn something every day, even if that means random internet research.

SO, I am making serious progress in my college stuff. WHEE!! (No, really, that's exciting. Now I'm only 1 week behind schedule instead of two-and-a-half. And I will finish tomorrow!! :D)

I Learned...

"Gaol" (as in, awesome poem by Oscar Wilde, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol") is actually pronounced the same as "jail." Weird.

Kathryne

Quiet day :)

The Good: skipped school and got a bunch of college work (and the work I would have missed in today's half day!) done. AND now I am sitting in Barnes & Noble with a yummy Gingerbread latte and funny music playing over the speakers.

The Bad: I hate when you run into someone in a public place... someone who, say, you knew in elementary/middle school and are friends with/regularly stalk on Facebook... but you haven't seen them in person for so long that
a) you aren't sure it's really them,
b) it would be awkward to talk to them, and/or
c) you have no idea what you would say were you to talk to them.
So you say nothing and stand there and try not to look at them or let them see you. This has happened to me several times recently, and it's just weird.
The Random: created my first ever instructional video for the harmony to Be Unto Your Name! awesome fun. Feel no need to watch it, seriously, unless you happen to be in a choir doing the same arrangement.

Also, it makes me laugh when stores advertise not only their store hours but also their website hours :P

Kathryne

PS-

more pictures from last weekend! out of all, I like this one.

apologetics...

The Good: Finished the extreme paper!

The Bad: Now to work on 25-minute presentation! ...heh

The Random: Ew, is picture day really tomorrow? And how did we end up talking about the economy at the dinner table... that was weird.

Kathryne

EDIT:

1:10am- YAY bedtime! YAY seriously mad dark circles under my eyes on picture day! YAY cover-up :P

...oh, right, and YAY finishhhhheeedddd Apologetics stuff, for, like, ever! (not really)

*whew

The Good: Finished Common App Essay 2.0. Got over my fear of "Choose your own topic."

The Bad: Am really really good at procrastinating that debate speech. Wondering if I'll be as good at winging it on Thursday.

The Random: Have not used a single subject in this blog post so far. SO THERE.

Kathryne

finished.

The Good: I have officially and successfully finished- my first college interview, my senior thesis proposal, my 3-page history essay, my Latin homework, and a good LOT of my college applications!

The Bad: I have officially and successfully finished- that part of my life where I get to sleep seven hours a night.

The Random: APPLE CIDER! (*swoons*)

And some quote catch-up...

"I have the attention span of, like, a squirrel." -Kevin

"Debate presentations are in two weeks. I will have a tazer. If you go above 8 minutes 15 seconds, I will taze you. If you stop short 7 minutes 45 seconds, I will taze you." -Mr. V

"Are you SERIOUS?!" -Victoria

"...for my students not in Chapter 10--" -Mr. C

"...NAPTIME! You couldn't have said it better yourself!" -Megan

"Maybe one day I'll be a tenth-grade girl." -Megan

"Let this be a lesson to you. Like what I like. Hate what I hate. And your world will be a more pleasant place." - (who else) Megan

Kathryne

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

last day...

at work :/

mixed feelings.

yay for no more getting up before 6am. boo for no more working. 7 weeks is not long enough for something like that.

to make up for the short time, I wrote them a poem. a tribute. hehe.

Kathryne

HOME

last night, around 11:30pm... we got home.

and I was not exactly smiling.

but I was happy.

see, about 30 seconds away from my house, there is a left turn. It's a T intersection, with the street we were turning onto as the base of the T. and as we turned onto that base, another car (sans headlights) comes barreling up towards us. and my dad didn't see it. and I didn't see it. but my mom did, and my dad stopped, and we didn't die 30 seconds away from my house.

how awesome.

Kathryne