Well, I'm prooobably not going to get a DS for under $20, I can see that now. XD My limit is now at $40, and even then they're ending at about $60, so I'm just gonna keep checking for misspellings and broken hinges until I can snag one cheap cheap cheap. I just want one that works; I don't care about anything else. It might take me all summer, but I'll get one somehow.

In the meantime I want cheap games for my PS2. It's just kinda sitting there doing nothing, and I feel like it's a waste of money as a paperweight, since it took me like two years to save up for it. I feel like PS2 games should take priority over a new system. Sooo, I'm buying Metal Gear Solid since Ryan won't lend me his. :D

How much does it cost to rent games at Blockbuster?

I'm gonna buy a DS on eBay. And I'm not going to spend more than $20. :D Let's see how this works out. I wanna play Phoenix Wright and The World Ends with You.

I have all this late homework and stuff to do. And yet here I am.

I was bored on Friday so I went to Roland's and we walked around and then played video games and chess. Then yesterday I went to see Ironman with Zac and Alex. I was a little disappointed in the movie; they could have done a lot better. It was still pretty kickass though.

What makes movie theatre trash smell so bad? Some sort of reaction between whatever's in the popcorn and soda? Because man, that shit reeks.

How many days of school left? I forget. But don't remind me, because I'll cry. D:

Do guys honk at me because they actually think I'm pretty, or are they just pigs? It happens a lot when I walk to the store, and today my dad was driving me home from school in his convertible and some dude on the sidewalk was like, "Hey gorgeous!" I don't wear anything slutty or anything, I'm usually in just jeans and a big ol' t-shirt, so it can't be that. Maybe it's my hair? Jessie says it looks really long when I put it back in a ponytail.

I really want to yell back at them and call them pedophiles and say I'm only 15. I look about 15, it could work. Or maybe 16. You tell me.

FUCK YEAH FUCK YEAH FUCK YEAH!!!! I has a friendy friend! Or possibly two. Or four. One is a junior and lives freakin' ACROSS THE STREET. WHAT. I forget his name. :X The other one's a freshman and lives down the street with his sister who I dunno how old she is but her boyfriend is 18 so I figure she's around there.

So yeah, I kept seeing people play basketball like every day down the street for a whole week, and today I was coming home from school/the library and I was like AHHH HURRY UP BEFORE THEY GO BACK INSIDE. So I quickly changed out of my uniform and rushed over there while making it seem like I was just kinda meandering along. 8D But it didn't work because they totally knew what I was up to. So I was just like HI, you guys look like you're my age! :D "You don't look 18." -__-;

Where have these people been hiding all this time? >:/

Now I won't be bored this summer! :DDD

Ingredients in Coke Zero: carbonated water, caramel color, aspartame, potassium benzoate (to protect taste), NATURAL FLAVORS, potassium citrate, acesulfame potassium, caffeine. Mmmm, isn't that just nutritious? Now tell me. What are the natural flavors, and what are they supposed to taste like? Also, corporations are trying to get us to think aspartame is safe by citing all these new studies, but really I think they bribed the government agencies who regulate that stuff. *gulps it down*

I don't wanna graduate. I'm scared.

I'd really like to take the bus more places, but I did a bunch of calculations and driving is still cheaper, even if gas does get up to $4/gal this summer. That's not counting insurance, because I'd have to keep it anyway for places the bus can't go. I can't wait until I can ditch the car completely. And then move to a walking town after college. Whee!

Sorry if this is all I talk about in here anymore.

I never seem to update this with actual events; it's all just the silly boring things that go on inside my head.

That thrift store I went yesterday wasn't a good one for jeans. :/ But they had all these hilarious old lady dresses. And lots of enormous t-shirts. Maybe I'll buy some, pick some designs from 108 Ways, and go to town. Also, that thrift store is great for old electronics and stuff. There were these two kickass phones. One was clear so you could see everything on the inside, and the inside stuff was all colorful, and one looked like a cell phone, except it wasn't. LOL. Also books. Like holy shit they had lots of books. But they weren't organized at all, and there were books behind books and books on top of books so you couldn't even see them all unless you took half of them down. I'd like to make a list of all their books and categorize them and alphabetize them. I wonder if they're a non-profit; maybe I could get service hours. I found Cliffs Notes for Lord of the Flies, but they didn't take debit and I had no cash. :(

Also, the other day I looked up the going prices on my textbooks, and I'll probably sell all of them on eBay. I can possibly even make a profit on some of them. There's no way the school is gonna give me that much money for them.

Shit, I forgot I have lots of homework. Oooops.

Wait, why are people boycotting ExxonMobil again? I thought it was because gas was more expensive there, but I went there today. I almost passed them by, but when I saw that it was $3.27 as opposed to $3.35 everywhere else (except for Rally. 8D), I was like OH WAIT NEVERMIND, VROOOM.

We should boycott Shell. Who buys gas at Shell? At every single one it's like ten cents more than everywhere else. Even when I'm running on empty, I pass a Shell and it's like, oh. Screw that, I'm going to Rally! (or if Rally isn't close by, I'll just go somewhere else down the road, because going out of your way for gas a few cents cheaper is stupid.)

The only problem with a democrat or a green for president is that they'll take away all the oil subsidies and prices will skyrocket. But it'll be better in the long run, because then cities will be forced to provide better public transportation and build stuff closer together. It'll just suck a LOT for a few years. Luckily I'll be in college and not driving for the next few years, and then I'll move someplace else. :D

I've realized that so much of my time now is devoted to driving. I never noticed it before when I was riding in the car, because I never had to pay attention to the road, but damn. It was like more than two hours today, just to go to work and then to the barn. Even just going to school, after one week that's five hours down the drain. I've heard that in a whole lifetime, a person spends two weeks just waiting at stoplights.

My mom got rid of Norton AntiVirus, and now our computer is like ZOOOOOOMMM!

But then she paid like $30 for Spy Sweeper. :/ At least it doesn't slow Edwin down so much.

My auction ended at $5.50! >:D Crazy people bidding more than once even though they were still the highest bidder, and kicking the price up by like $3. People are so weird. What should I sell next? :D

I'm considering selling my advertising space on eBay. But would it sell in the advertising category, which is full of crazy people with the big purple banners and bold text all selling money-making schemes? Hmmmm. At any rate, I need to make a new "your ad here" sign. People think I've given up, but actually the old sign just sorta broke and I forgot about the whole thing.

This afternoon kinda sucked. My mom picked me up from school at like 4:30, after everyone left at like 3. Then I went to the library and forgot my card and had to go back home to get it, and then I went to a thrift store only to find out they were closed. Oh wellz. I'll go tomorrow. I need some new jeans.

Somehow I lost my wallet and my sunglasses. I had them one morning, and I was about to leave the house with them, but my mom was being slow so I set everything on the table, and then later my mom cleaned the house and forgot where she put them. So now I don't have any money and I can't pay for gas or anything, and my mom is letting me use her card and I'm just gonna have to pay her back using PayPal or something. And I don't have my Visa gift card to buy a $5 shirt on Threadless with my couponnn. D:

Oh my God. I just got done watching Everything Is Illuminated. Holy crap. What an amazingly beautiful movie. I laughed and I laughed, and I cried and I cried. And then while I was still crying, the song in the ending credits made me laugh, and then I had no idea what to do.

P.S. Mary, the song was [ this ].

LOL remember that Tim guy I met at the Harry Potter movie release who went to Metrocon as Anonymous? You probably don't, but anyway, he's Andrew's friend. XD

OMG I'm so excited! Lizzy Curry's going to USF and we're gonna be roommates! Whooo! Also I find out if I'm accepted to FSU in two days. Except I'm probably not going there. Haha. I might still visit just to be sure, but USF would be soooo much more convenient and probably less expensive. Sorry, Frank. :(

I am going to make so many awesome new friends who actually care about stuff and aren't into drugs. Hopefully.

Also, two families on our street are selling their houses and I am praying to Buddha that somebody my age moves in. :0

All of a sudden, everything is going my way. Good luck comes in waves, I guess.

The other night I had a dream about my cousin Clinton, cockroaches, and doing the crossword in crayon. Hmmmm.

Skewl tomorrows. D:

Hmmz, I want my eBay auction to end already! >:0 It has one watcher, but no bids yet. Come on people, a $20 value for 99 cents! Do it faggots! >:D

Soooo excited for college. And Grad Nite. And prom. And Metrocon. Oh man this is gonna be an awesome/sad couple of months. I'm scared for senior retreat. Oh mannn. XD

Know what pisses me off? Food. Like, you eat it, and it's good, and then all of a sudden you're hungry again. And you're like wtf, I just ate like three hours ago. And you eat again, but then you get hungry again a few hours later. It just never stops. Why can't eating be like bathing? You do it once a day and you're good.

Know what else pisses me off? Low fat milk. No offense to people who drink it because they're used to it and regular milk tastes funny to them, but why do they make low fat milk anyway? Have you ever heard of a person who got fat drinking milk? No. Just stay off the Twinkies and leave my milk alone. (Honestly I could care less; it's just something that's always puzzled me.)

And how about the crappy public transportation in this county? Your only option is the bus, and it's painfully slow and can get expensive if you have to transfer, which you always do unless you're going right down the street. And it doesn't even go everywhere. I mean, I love taking the bus, I just wish it were more convenient so I could take it more often. Or maybe we can get a metro up in here like in DC. That would be friggin' awesome, and would probably help solve our traffic problem.

I hate driving. I almost died today, and the other night I almost hit a cat. I may not be so lucky in the future. My car is a death machine.

I feel like my job isn't going well. It's fun, but I drop things and spill things and forget to do stuff, and at times when there's nothing to do, I feel like I should be doing something, or else I shouldn't be there, because I'm just standing around wasting people's money. And I get in the way a lot. I feel like business would run more smoothly if somebody less clumsy and more outgoing and not so scatterbrained would take my place. But I'm not quitting, because I need the money and the experience and the free movies. And it's still kinda fun.

On a lighter note, sooooo looking forward to college. And the car-free aspect of it. I'll be saving $200 and a bazillion pounds of pollution a month. Whee!

You know, I was thinking about that Earth Hour thing (tomorrow at 8pm by the way), and how they're asking businesses to get in on it. And I guess all this time I've sorta been taking electricity for granted. Like, it's easy for a household to do it, because all we're losing is a couple of lights, a TV, computer, etc. We can just do something else for an hour. But for businesses it's harder because they depend so much on electricity. AMC for example. It's not like they can just stop the movies and be like, "Okay guys, time to save the world." That would mess everything up and people would be pissed. If a grocery store did it, they might as well just close the store entirely for an hour, because without the lights and cash registers and security cameras and alarms, not only would people not be able to shop, but shoplifters would have a field day.

So unless it was an entire city-wide thing like in Dubai and San Francisco and wherever else where everyone knew and made accommodations for it (because the city was gonna turn off their power anyway), people can't expect too many businesses to participate.

Seriously, why do I always sound like a kindergartener when I talk about environmental stuff? Geez.

I fixed my interwebz. I just unplugged the router and moved some cords around and it works fine now, albeit a bit slow, but that might be because my mom installed Spybot even though we already have Norton and AdAware, and the former slowed down our computer soooo much already. T__T

My Saturday deadline is coming up fast, and I still have no idea how tf to get this stupid wireless thing set up. I downloaded ndiswrapper and the Windows driver (or is it? It said something about firmware, so I have no idea if that's what I'm supposed to have) to my network card, but I have no idea how to open either of them to make it work. Arrgh! I feel like such an idiot. All the posts in every forum that helped other people with their problems just leave me scratching my head and I don't understand any of this mumbo jumbo. Why did I do this again? I forget.

I really want to just take Lappy into some computer repair place and make them fix it, except I'd like to know how they did it. Maybe if they could just show me how? Do fix-it places do that? Ehhh but the moneeey.

In other news, one of the textbooks I got today is going for somewhere between $40 and $70. Heck yeah. I'll wait until later in the summer to sell it.

Wow my internet is being really ghey. Like every three minutes or so it just stops working, and when it does work, it loads things veeeery slooooowly.

Some good news is that I sold my 58 My Coke Rewards points for $3.50, and I've already gotten two, possibly three offers of textbooks. Great news is that one of those offers is for two textbooks that Mary will be able to use.

Also Aubrey came to visit today! We went to see Drillbit Taylor, which was pretty okay, and then went back to my house and looked through all my 4chan pics for like 10 minutes until he had to leave. :/ I may or may not see him later tomorrow, and then he'll be gone until summer rolls around. I mean srsly wtf. After almost two years, I still only get one or two days and that's it? At least I made sure to punch him in the face like I said I would.

Yesterday after work I went to see Doomsday with Frank and Cody. Oh man, it was a bloodbath. Read Frank's entry on it.

I'm up to volume 18 of Kare Kano. It's getting good! :0

[ LOL WUT ]

I don't feel like typing a real update. D:

SPRING BREAK WOOOOOO

Fuuuuuuuck. I had it all planned out to go to the protest, I took the day off from work, told everyone to meet at my house so we could all take the bus downtown, stayed up until 2am (after getting off work at 10:30) cleaning my house, woke up at 8am and got ready and cleaned some more, and then all of a sudden, oops! Everyone else canceled on me! What.

So now I'm pissed because my mom isn't letting me go all by myself, and if I had known ahead of time that nobody could go instead of getting a bunch of "I'll tryyyyyyy to go..."s, I could have just had a garage sale today instead.

So now what am I gonna do with a whole day all alone? T__T

If it's not one thing, it's another.

I FINALLY got Xubuntu all installed, but now I'm trying to set up my network connection or whatever and WHY IT NO WERK? DDDD:

It doesn't automatically detect wireless networks like Windows does, so I have to set it up manually, and I have everything except the gateway address. Also I don't have any sort of password or anything to connect to the network, and it was asking me like what kind of security it has and stuff, but it doesn't have any and there's no option for that. Would that have anything to do with it? And I tried what people said how you put the router's IP address into the browser and see the configuration settings that way, but it doesn't work for meeeee.

HALP. D: I've been losing sleep over this all week. I really want it to be all set up so I can finally just use it and be happyyy. ;~;