School and Awards

Greetings.


Senior. Year. Starts. TOMORROW. BEGIN FREAK OUT SESSION NOW!!!!! I cannot believe that I'm going to be a senior! I mean, college admissions, scholarships, admissions essays, SATs, ACTs, migraines, jobs, I think I'm hyperventilating just THINKING ABOUT IT! I'm kind of scared. I mean, I have no idea what life is like outside of school. (Summer doesn't count) I have to get a job or else I lose my baby Kermit, I'm going to college in a year, and I'm going to live life on my own. I don't know anything! I'm smart, but I don't know how to work with the real world. I ALREADY HATE SENIOR YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!

... Okay, I have calmed down now. Last night I went to an awards ceremony similar to the Tonys for my community theater group, the group with whom I performed ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Anyways, I won something. I was nominated for Best Leading Actress for my role as The Witch for INTO THE WOODS. I won a Spirit of Junior Theater Award for exemplifying all that Junior Theater stands for. (I didn't win Best Actress. However, the only girl I would have been alright with winning won, so I'm better than I would have been if someone else had won it.) The best part about winning it was that BENTLEY WON IT WITH ME! The award goes to the boy AND the girl who exemplifies all the wonderful qualities they want and we made a speech together. It was really awesome! I opened with, "Just for the record, I am older. But he's cuter so it doesn't matter much." (I said that because he's five feet, eleven inches and I am only five feet, four and a half inches tall.) It was pretty good.

Joseph was there. Nothing was out of the ordinary, but something he said at church today made me uneasy. He said he didn't put too much emotional stock in things just in case it didn't work out the way he planned. What if he doesn't put too much emotional stock into the fact that I am practically in love with him? What if he doesn't care? I think that may be even worse...


Hugz
HM

Six Hours with Joseph

Greetings.


As you may have guessed from the title, I had a magnificent day. 1) Today was the last day of school (hums Alice Cooper's "School's Out" for a few bars). I missed 3 on my History final, giving me a 94 on the final, but I don't care. I had the highest grade in the class even if I got an F. Spanish was easy. I'm going to miss Señor de Soto over the summer, but I'll have him for Spanish 4AP next year. And guess what? All of my friends @ school are taking AP classes next year. Joseph is taking English 12AP with me, Bennie is taking AP Psych, Joss is taking AP Calculus (I know, is she crazy?), Claire, I think is taking some sort of AP class, I'll have to check, and Emma, Lucky, and Pete are taking an assortment of these plus AP Gov/Econ and AP Bio. Sheesh...

2) I spent six hours with Joseph. I helped clean out his mother's classroom (she teaches fifth grade at Journey Boarding School, an über exclusive private school about ten miles away from where I live. It's very swanky.) and I used Kermit's fabulous storage space to cart around the heavy stuff. Then we returned to his house and we played video games and watched INVADER ZIM. (Seriously, I think those guys were really high when they wrote it.) The best part: we were all alone in his room. And he's taking it... easier? I don't know, but he seemed more open than usual, praise God. Then Mr. M, Mrs. M, Joseph, and I all went to IHOP and then Target. Tomorrow (well, today now...) I'm going back over there to watch ALICE IN WONDERLAND with the three of them plus Jasper. And, as an added bonus, I had a piece of cake from Jackson's. To. Die. For.

Could my day get any better? The answer is no.


Hugz
HM
P.S. Keep my cousin Ginger in your prayers. I am worried about her but I can't say anything about it on here...