American Idol + Michael Johns

I know I know I am REALLY freaking out about this... it seems almost surreal now...

Laura was at my house for a sleepover yesterday, and we wanted to go see the American Idol concert (except the tickets were at higher prices than the internet sells them) so it was a real disappointment that we didn't get to watch it.

But! When we were walking around the building, Michael Johns suddenly walked out from the bus and all the women were like, "omg!" *squeals and takes flash pictures*

Me: *gasp, mouth drop*
Laura: Um...

You see, I've never been in the prescence of a okay to well-known person before. Especially an American Idolist. It almost seems like... a dream...

Well. That was the only good thing that came out of it. But WOW! Michael Johns! If it was David Archuleta or David Cook, the entire crowd from Blue Cross would've started running out of the building (the concert had already started by then). LOL! MICHAEL JOHNS! BRUCE! hehe. (inside joke between me and Julia Tucker)

DeviantART

I got a DeviantART yesterday. If you don't know what that is, it's a site where you post pictures and stuff and other people comment on how good you are (or how bad. xD) I figured that I should get one, since I love drawing manga/anime stuff and Naa-chan said I should. (Nadia)

So now I have a DeviantART, and I already submitted some pictures, even though they stink compared to other people. Oh wellz. I'm just starting out, I guess. =P

I'm probably going to post less here, since I can post a journal entry on DeviantART. If you want to check out my pictures, go to this site:

http://xdeepdivex.deviantart.com

Unity Day

Yesterday was Unity Day at the college that my mom teaches. (New York Chiropractic College) It's annual, and this year I brought Julia T along with me to play. There are a lot of activities there. Tons of food, snow cones, cotton candy, paint activities, balloon stuff... I guess you get the idea. There was a DJ too.

There was this booth thing, where you could take a picture of yourself and paste it onto a magazine cover. Julia and I took a picture of us together and put it on the cover of Teen People. Now we can brag to people that we were chosen to be put on the cover of Teen People. Haha.

Hey Jon, if you read this, there was a skateboard magazine that someone could've chosen. I was thinking that if you came with us, you could take a picture of yourself and put it on the cover of the skateboard magazine! Haha. Fun fun.

But that's not all - Ritti, Murie, Alice, Laura and all you pervy people will enjoy the next part (I hope). There was a trivia game where you pick teams and answer trivia to earn the most points and win money in the final round called Thinkfast. Once, the host picked 5 people from the crowd and made them sing "Bootleg American Idol style", where they had 10 seconds to sing. Then, the next time he picked 5 other people and made them dance "Bootleg So You Think You Can Dance" where you had a certain amount of time to dance. There was this pole that was holding the tent up, and this guy was pole dancing! Like REALLY pole dancing! Like... okay, never mind. You don't need to know. The host was like, "There are old people and children in thsi crowd. Please, THINK OF THE CHILDREN."

You might be wondering what that was for. It was to stay up as long as possible and let the others vote who they like the best and then their team gets to go in the final round. Naturally, the guy who pole danced got the most votes in his dancing competition and got to go to the finals. Except he had to be kicked off when he said that 3x3x3 was 18.

While people were answering trivia and whatnot to get points, there were survey questions. One of the survey questions was "If you could live forever, would you?" and this guy who was sitting a few rows in front of us turned around and shouted to his friend who was sitting directly in front of us, "Do you know how many girls I could have sex with in forever?!?"

Me and Julia: *awkward*

But Jon, there were questions about Jimmy Hendrix and Neil Young and all those people of yours. I'm sorry Ritti and Laura, but there were no questions about Doodler and Hayhair. =( There was a question about Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada though! (My two fav yankee players)

Overall, it was probably the best and most entertaining Unity Day I've been to. (I've been to 3 so far) Maybe next year I can invite more people! =D

Barracudas and Sprints...?

I completely forgot that I had a blog again. Oops, my bad.

I've been doing barracudas... and it's been fun, I guess. Nadia's always there. Madi is sometimes there... Tori's there... umm a lot more kids from our grade are coming more often... hehe.

Now I will tell you about Oren and Danny! They are becoming seniors this year. MAN they are beast! Oren's really good at running, and Danny's really good at swimming... wow. Every day, we have to run a mile on the track in the 4:30 sun (it can be really sunny!) and Oren and Dan and sometimes Mark run like crazy. They pass and lap everyone (you can count on it every time!) and they are just amazing. They can give Andrew and Jake Mullen a run for their money (hahahaha no pun intended.) I bet their mile is like under 6 minutes or something. Once, Dan and Oren finished a full lap ahead of us (me, nadia, and madi). Our time was like a little over 9 minutes, so I can't imagine what their time was. Let's see... 9 divided by 4 is 2.5 minutes or something... so they must've been like 7 minutes... still. Not quite 6 minutes... but they ARE fast. I was telling Jon this; I should bring a video camera and tape them running, then show it to Andrew.

**edited on July 19 - Danny is actually becoming a junior. My bad. =P

Oren sprinting is sooooooooooooooooo... (place undescribable word here) I know I'm stressing the fact that he is SOOO FAST, but he is. It's like that road runner, you know, from the commercials? That chicken that runs really fast... and when Oren runs past you the track becomes dust. And we all go into a coughing fit. He's just THAT FAST.

Okay, I was exaggerating. You have to ask Nadia or Madi about this (although I don't know if Madi knows who Oren is...) but sheesh...

Gas Prices

Jon told me I haven't updated my blog in awhile. Well heh heh... I kinda forgot I had one... *sheepish smile* Eheh... heh heh...

This morning I was telling my dad how our family needed a vacation. I mean, seriously, it's 90 degrees outside, and it probably will stay that way for the next 8 weeks. He decided to tell me about... *drum roll, dun dun dun*

our economy

Yes, yes, children. Our economy. First off, he began with the circle of money-making.

Moohahahaha. The gas prices are going up, so people don't want to buy gas. If people don't buy gas, the gas people don't get paid. If they don't get paid, they make the gas prices go up even more. Eventually they figure out that they aren't getting enough money, and fire half their people, who go home and DON'T HAVE MONEY. Then they lower their gas prices because they don't have as much people... but people still won't buy the gas because now NO ONE HAS MONEY ANYMORE.

This is what our world has become. Completely relying on money. And because of this, I can't go on a long and relaxing vacation this summer. Bummer. (oh hey, that rhymed!)

What happened to those days where your horse took you places, and there was no global warming?

Weird Dreams...

Have you ever had weird dreams where you are someplace, then suddenly, you are somewhere else? You didn't fly there; you didn't walk there... you somehow just teleported there within a split second? Or have you had those dreams where you're seeing yourself doing things, as if you were watching another person, yet you know that YOU'RE the one making the decisions? Almost like you're God or something. Or have you ever had dreams where you roll over on your bed and suddenly if feels like you're falling 10,000 feet? My dad said that if you dream of falling, it means you grew in the night. I've had a dream where I was flying once... it was so cool... just going wherever I want in the air...

Have you ever wondered what guys dream about? Or, if you're a guy, ever wonder what girls dream about? Being a girl, we don't dream about absurd things. At least, not most of the time anyways.

I don't know if anyone else has had this happen to them, but sometimes, I have a dream, and I don't think it's that important of a dream so I disregard it. Then a few days later, something in real life happens, and it reminds me of the dream. It's really scary... dreaming about something and having it happen in real life...

Sometimes I dream about my friends. I always thought that I was kinda too wrapped up in other people's problems. I mean, if someone tells me something, I feel like I have to do something about it. I always worry about my friends, and how they feel and stuff. I hate making anyone feel bad. So that might be the reason why recently I've been dreaming of Ritti and Doodler. It's because I care for Ritti too much. <3

Night #1: For some reason, in this dream, Doodler asked Jamie out in a written index card note. But.. Jamie never replied. So in a room that was very similar to Mr. Mancuso's room, I asked her why she didn't say anything. Jamie's reason was that she didn't like it when guys asked her out; SHE had to be the one who asked anyone out. She told me that she was going to ask him out... yeah. Something like that. It was weird. It might rank as one of my most disturbing dreams.

Night #2: This dream was very long, and my memory of my dreams are pretty hazy. We were taking exams in the atrium (yes! the atrium!), and we were sitting in tables (yes, tables, not desks). Each table was organized by last name alphabetical order... so at my table, I was sitting with people like Doodler and people with last names G-K or whatever. At the next table, which ranged from... I'm not sure. But Ritti was sitting at the next table. And Ritti snuck to our table, and okay, this is kinda disturbing, but it's exactly what happened (sorry Ritti), and Doodler and her started flirting and making out. AT OUR EXAM TABLE. Then later, we were at this huge party or whatever, first come first serve in this big building. And then... I don't know. Andrew and Doodler and whoever were in this place, and the place exploded. And then absolute chaos. Then... I don't know what happened. I think we found Doodler and Andrew and Jack or whoever else was with them and all was well. Please don't ask. I have no clue.

These two dreams probably rank as my weirdest and most not-cool dreams ever. My coolest dream was probably when I was flying...but that dream was scary because my parents were plotting to sell me or whatever... but I know they would never do that in real life. Lol. I've had sad dreams too... like that one time... oh never mind. I figure you guys won't need sad, depressing stories to think about. Catchya later!

Barracudas

It's not that I'm not honoring Buswona by chosing not to use up an entire post about it when it happened last week. It's because... I don't know. Other people have posted about it, and I'm afraid if I do I will break the pact by accident. And then you guys will have to break my neck (on accident.) I am going to honor Buswona using only a sentence and a very long pause.

Buswona was fun, and it was amazing; please give a moment of silence.

[here comes the very long pause]

Now, onto the topic. Barracudas started on Monday of this week, and since then, I have been dead. We run every day for a mile (or maybe even more; no one really has measured), do abs for... I don't know. Fifteen minutes, maybe? We have to do pushups, crunches, squat-thrusts, lunges, high knees, supermans, etc. It's kind of painful. Okay, not kind of. VERY painful.

Then we swim for an hour or so. The swimming part isn't that bad; it's just very annoying. And have you noticed, that even if you do something that's kind of easy, if you do it repeatedly for a very long time you get sore afterwards? That's what swimming is, basically.

And now, my legs are all sore from all that running, and my arms are all sore from all that repeated swimming. You know what? I think getting back into shape is not fun, and definitely killing to your body.

Lesson #1: Always cheat. Cut corners when running, don't do flip turns... etc.

Okay, that wasn't a good lesson. How about the real things we should be thinking about?

Lesson #1: No matter how hard your obstacle is, you will always survive so keep going.
Lesson #2: Don't stop running, because it will always be harder to start back up again.
Lesson #3: Stretch, you'll regret it if you don't.
Lesson #4: DON'T GET OUT OF SHAPE!! You'll regret it even more! And then you'll be like me! All sore and tired and dead... bleugh!