Near the end...

Why is it I feel closer to my schoolmates towards the end of my highschool career? People who used to make my life a living hell are being nice to me and joking around with me now. Why couldn't they have skipped those awful, tormenting feelings towards me and just have been nice to me the whole time? Now it's getting harder to leave the school. I still want to get the hell out of there, but now I think I'm going to miss it some. Spirit Week was really fun and I wish that I had had a better outlook on my classmates throughout high school. I won't be bawling my eyes out like some girls haha, but I'll be sad.

Bonnaroo tickets go on sale in exactly ONE WEEK and I am excited! Kanye West is going to amazing. And all the other acts too. Hopefully, Kings of Leon and all the others I want will be added to the line-up later. Kaitlin, Katelyn, and Meredith are going to carpool with Eric, John, and me. Hopefully, it'll be an awesome experience. While I'm in college, I'll probably try to go to more music festivals. It costs a TON of money though.

Speaking of money, I spent 40 bucks at Moviestop today. I got Harry Potter 3, Pirates 3, Count of Monte Cristo, and Little Miss Sunshine. I just watched Monte Cristo and I had forgotten how awesome it is. I saw that in theaters when it came out in like 2002. I traded in Empire Records and Boy Meets World Season 1 and only got 8 dollars worth of store credit though. I thought that was kind of... low. Every time I go into Moviestop, the same guys are working and they pretty much know what movies I like and they started reccommending them to me today haha. So maybe when I get my license back in April, I can apply for a job there and get it since they, like, know me. But then again, Kaitlin applied for a job there and got turned down for not having any "stocking experience" so who knows?

Mock Trial is almost over. Thank the Lord. David and I were cross examined and direct examined by two lawyer interns who have been to law school and everything. It was really scary lol. I hated every second of it, but I think I did okay. I just can't wait for it to be over. Fiddler on the Roof is getting better though, which is good. I have to transpose some of the music from alto flute to flute though, which is really tedious to do on his computer. I'm so glad I'm not doing track though. My schedule is full enough!

I'm going to North Carolina next weekend for President's weekend with my youth group. That ought to be fun. I feel bad because as part of going to Bonnaroo, my mom is making me go with the family to Myrtle Beach and not go on my last summer mission trip with the youth group. But Bonnaroo is worth it lol.

By the way, John Mayer is looking better and better every day...

Famous Graves Around the World

These are the graves of Duane Allman (left) and Berry Oakley (right). I took this picture yesterday at Rosehill Cemetary which is about 3 miles from my house. Surprisingly, as much as I love the Allman Brothers Band, I'd never been to their graves before yesterday!

But, a while ago, I decided that one summer, I'm going to travel the world and visit famous gravesites. I've already got a loooong list going. I'll have to travel all over the US and then hop on planes to go to places like Italy, Australia, England, and France.

The main grave I want to visit is Jim Morrison's in Paris. After reading a book about Jim Morrison, I really wanted to see his grave. And that started a chain reaction leading to a list of over 30 graves to visit. The list includes people such as James Dean, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Chris Farley, John Bonham, Andy Warhol, and (added VERY recently) Heath Ledger. I'll need to save up a TON of money to fly to Australia, but I really want to see his grave.

Some of the people's graves I wanted to see don't have graves! They've been cremated! Like Marlon Brando, Janis Joplin, and Jerry Garcia. But for the most part, I'm finding a lot of people's graves, thanks to findagrave.com. haha.

I'm going to England this summer, so maybe I can convince my dad to let me go searching for the graves of the people in England. There's only four (so far). There's Princess Diana, Keith Moon (even though he was cremated, his ashes were spread in a plot at a church cemetary), John Bonham, and Brian Jones. Maybe if I save up money, I can ride the Chunnel to Paris for like two days so I can see Jim Morrison's grave! That way, I'd already have most of the graves visited before I set out on my own! That would save me a lot of time AND money.

Well, two graves down, about 30 more to go!

Me Being a Total Girl

So it's really nice to be flirted with hahaha. It boosts the ole self-esteem up pretty high to be quite honest. At the Starcadia lock-in, I was helping some friends pick out what to get for their tickets and the 2 guys up there started making fun of me! So I called them on it and it's all downhill from there haha. One of them wasn't too cute... he had half a thumb. I'm not even lying!! But the other guy was pretty cute. :) HAHA. I love being a complete loser. And I looked like CRAP tonight. I rode the go-karts and my hair was all messy and gross, I had a wooly hat on, and I was in a sweatshirt. But still I guess I radiated self-confidence and I was able to pull off full flirt mode.

It kinda reminds me of a boy I REALLLLLLLY liked in 10th grade. He was a senior. I was still in my awkward years. I mean, AWKWARD years. I had acne, braces, unkempt hair, the works. Yet, he still wanted to hang out with me and he texted me and IM'd me all the time. I guess because I kinda know who I am and I just act like myself. He laughed genuinely at all my jokes. I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I think I'm a pretty funny person. I've got good timing with my jokes and all that. And if a guy tries to make me look dumb, I reverse it on them haha. Sometimes it works, and other times it backfires completely. Like tonight. I was asking what I could get for like 10 tickets and the cute guy said "Lots of candy!" and I was hyper enough so I said, "Ugh.. I don't need candy..." To which he replies, "Well, we have hummus!" I have no idea what that is, and I told him this. "It was a joke, we really don't have that.." "Ha... great joke!" "It would have been had you known what hummus was!" haha. I guess you have to be there.

What I'm saying is... it's nice to be noticed. :)