General Subjects!

        I love that having a blog means I can talk about whatever kind of boring or exciting stuff I want to. :-)
         For AP Literature and Composition (which I am excited for while also being terrified of the potential workload), I'm reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.  Though I've only gotten through chapter four, I actually do like it!  I'm rather impressed with Dickens's writing skill -- I've read far too much John Steinbeck and Nathaniel Hawthorne to put much faith in old-school writers.  So far, I like his writing just as much as I liked Fitzgerald's in The Great Gatsby, which is great!  Now I just need to speed up on actually getting those pages read and write some short essays.  I freaking love essays for no logical reason.
        For AP Biology, I have been far less... successful... in getting my work done.  We need to take photo examples of biology terms to get up a certain amount of points, and I'm doing greatly, with a total so far of zero points!  Yea!  Yea!  But I still have done some stuff.  So ha, procrastination fairy!  Ha!
        In non-school news, I've been reading a lot.  I found some books that I really like recently.  I finished Maureen Johnson's The Name of the Star, and I adored it.  It was dramatic and hilarious.  Maureen Johnson is kind of my awkward idol, in that she's the strangest person but is still totally awesome.  I finally got myself to finish Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier, and I loved it, despite its tendency to make me mad with the past for being so misogynist.  I'm reading Black Butler #1 by Yana Toboso and Island's End by Padma Venkatraman right now.  I don't really like the writing style in Island's End so far, but I hope it gets better.
        Color guard has been pretty good.  We have between seven and nine members as of today.  The heat is a bummer, dehydration is a killer, and keeping a perky attentiveness is as difficult as ever, but the girls are really doing quite well.  Our first color guard social/sleepover is tomorrow, and I'm excited!  We're going to see The Avengers (my first time) and then we'll party all night -- but we won't tell any instructors about that last part!
        My sleeping schedule is completely out of whack.  You know those goals where you say, "I'm going to go to sleep at good times over the summer so that I can have better sleeping habits when school starts again"?  Yeah, they always fail.
         My fambly is all off doing stuff.  My brother's with some friends in Oregon and my mom and sister just left today for Montana for the weekend.  My dad-io and I are home alone, with cats that give us extra love because they miss everyone else.  But Lexie and I will be leaving for the Shakespeare Festival next weekend with the girl scouts, and it should be fuuun!
        Aaaand, fiiinally... I don't hate driving at all anymore (which must annoy my aunts and uncle because they keep saying, "It's not that scary, you'll get used to it," and I yell at them in my mind and say, "I KNOW we've been over this every time we talk I don't hate driving I just don't want to babysit your kids and pretending I hate driving is the easiest way to get out of it without saying I don't want to be left alone with your children!" while I just actually say, "Yeah.")
        So... sleep is a thing.  It is a thing that I should do.