The past five days, in review

[I know, it's a lot of words. But pretend it was spread out over a lot of days. You can wade through it, I promise. <3]

W: Attended some stupid MIT reception for local accepted students, for which some people were too cool. The first person I tried to talk to [well, after the sophomores whom I asked if they were alumni] was slightly creepy/possibly autistic. And then the next girl was really shy, too. And I was like -_-. But the current students there were really friendly/fun to talk to. & there were a few cute boys, except one was like, "yeah, I'm either going to Duke or Harvard." The other one had bleached blonde hair & kind of reminded me of Jude Law [>.<;;], but apparently he only bleached his hair for swimming. So I guess it's not just Abington swimming that does stupid things to the hair of otherwise perfectly nice boys. Of course, with my hair as it is, perhaps I shouldn't talk. But at least I don't shave stupid designs on my head.

So yeah, and there was an a capella group that was pretty good. I bought their CD, which features, among other things, 'Space Oddity.' Oh, David Bowie. Plz have my children.

Th: Financial aid package from MIT arrived. Pretty sweet. Basically I only have to pay like $1500 and my parents have to pay ~$5500. So, yeah. W0rd. Plus, and I'm not supposed to tell anyone except my immediate family until May 4, but tod. I got a $2500 scholarship, and I'm fairly sure MIT takes outside scholarships out of self-help. Paying for college anxiety = mostly alleviated.

Also, on Thursday teh fam went downtown to dye Easter eggs. Made some really sweet ones. Esp. because some of them were freshly boiled, so they were still warm and the heat melted the crayon when you drew on them. So it was pretty much awesome. My favourite is prolly the yellow flower on the blue, but I also drew Captain Planet & on the other side it says: "I'm your powers combined."

F: Mad cleaned my room. Like, you can see the floor now. And the huge explosion of clothes everywhere is now mostly confined to a single laundry basket by my dresser. It's kind of starting to become a pile again, but I'm trying.

Sienna called me & we went [w. a freshman at UDel who graduated last year] to this benefit concert of local bands for Building With Books that she wanted to go to because this boy she thinks is cute [even though he has a girlfriend x.x] was in one of the bands. So we get there at like 6 o'clock. It is still light out and there are these four punk rock guys on the porch of a house. So we go up and Sienna's young lover is like, "Awesome, you came."

So we follow them into the house, through the kitchen with someone's mom standing there, and then down these dark steps to the basement. It is about a hundred percent shady. In the basement are all these goth/punk kids, except it's so dark, you can just see their eyes glittering. So we look around, exchange glances, and then slowly make our escape [no sudden movements lest we startle them]. "We'll be back ~7:30 [when boytoy's band is supposed to play]."

So we go to Panera/Rita's Water Ice & waste time by eating. Mmm, food. Oh, and we stop at the mall, so our driver can buy some special lip gloss.

Then it's back to the concert-in-a-basement. We descend into the darkness [okay, there was a blacklight & a couple of other coloured lightbulbs, so it wasn't pitch black, but still] and take over an easychair, whence I try to send Sienna hateful txts about what a dumb idea this was, except I have no service because we are in a basement.

I mean, it was kind of cool. There were all these little kids sitting kindergarten-style on the floor in front of two guitarists from Formerly Known [local band]. I suppose if you were friends with all of them, it would be pretty much awesome. But I knew like ~5 people there.

So after a million years, the band we were there for finally played. & then we peaced out.

But it was fun to hang out with Sienna. & we mostly played RL MST3K. Making fun of other ppl = good times. OMG, we had such a good one while we were waiting in the car for Becka to get her lip gloss. There was this car diagonal from us with a guy wearing a newsboy hat & his girlfriend. And we had an entire argument for them. And then they got out of the car and made up/out. It was perfect.

S: Went to Chestnut Hill with KT&Marisa. Bought lunch at Farmer's Market & there were no seats inside, so we went out to the picnic tables outside, except there was a slightly creepy homeless man at one of the tables, so I kind of veered away & we had a conference to decide whether we wanted to eat by the homeless man. Eventually, we were like, okay, whatevz. And ironically, we, three harmless teenage girls, scared him away. So, yeah. I had a veggie burger + brown and wild rice pilaf + sweet potatoes. Mmm.

For dessert, we had gelato. Except the smallest size was way too huge. But we got to sit in these cool seats at the counter, so that was pretty much awesome.

& then we wandered through bourgeois shops, reveling in the cuteness & vomiting at the price tags. At this jewelry store where KT made a necklace for prom out of these metallic lavender pearls [it's cuter than it sounds], I was accosted by the store owner who thought I was trying to take pictures of her ware with my phone. [I was looking at the picture of my prom dress to compare its colour to the jewelry.] When I explained, she was all apologetic, but she was like, "See, this woman came in and started taking pictures of everything and she was the daughter of my competitor." Which made me laugh a little, but only inside, as propriety demands.

& I bought some hot pink fishnet knee-highs, which I wore yest. for Easter. Oh, and some cute pencils/pen from Borders. And I was browsing Ann Coulter's How to Talk to Liberals (If You Must) and I almost choked on my own bile/incredulity. Talk about polarization.

Also, there was this "young adult's" book called Piratica, which I really wanted to read, which made me feel lame. But maybe the library has it. >.> <.<

Sat. night my aunt/pseudo-aunt and uncle came out for dinner/college basketball/boardgames. 13 Dead End Drive is such a classic. & we played this German card game, "Elfer raus!", which was okay.

S: Easter. I dressed in my Easter finest for dinner at my aunt's. [Easter finest: a white lacy dress that my sister pointed out is supposed to be worn under other clothes + shiny dark pink collared t-shirt + pale peach sweater + pearls + knee-high fishnets + white heels from sixth grade graduation. >.> <.< It was pretty much awesome.

After food, we watched an episode of Lost in Space. Also took children outside to run around the block, expending energy.

Colin downloaded Pong and Tetris to my phone because I didn't have any "good games." Pong is pretty boring, but I hrt Tetris. It reminds me of how everyone in my classes plays it on their graphing calculators every period evar.

School tom. Bleargh.

I need a thesis about the Weather Underground. I borrowed The Way the Wind Blew from the library but it hasn't really helped in my thesis quest yet.