anything but ordinary...

i thought that was an appropriate song title, since my life seems "anything but ordinary" lately... and sometimes i guess that's a good thing, but really it's not right now. don't get me wrong- life could be much worse, so as long as that is still the case, we're good... and i won't complain to all of you, since some of you have heard it much more than you want to anyway. i'll just leave you with the words of Hillary: "Kelly, we're gonna be seniors next year. how depressing!" (Kelly: "i know!") "all the seniors are SO stressed out... this is terrible... i thought we were supposed to want to be seniors." (it was something along those general lines anyways)
i meant i'll end the paragraph with those words... not leave you with them. i guess since sunday life's been pretty okay. i stress out for various reasons, but then again we all do. volleyball will hopefully start to be a lot more fun once we get into our constant gaming schedule, but yesterday was like nazi-practice. not even joking. oh well... it builds character, right? lol.
i've been even more slap-happy than normal lately (yes there is a direct correlation there) and that kinda annoys me, but so does the constant buzz coming from my left in choir these days. haha!
anyways, i still have homework to do and i also have a whole lot of unfinished conversations that i've got to finish tonight... so i'll keep you posted! (haha! bad joke)

don't lie...

(this song title i find to be rather ironic... seeing as how it would have fit much better with my last entry. but this is the title today because we were singing it in Clinton's car on the way home from retreat today because it's one of his favorite songs right now... yeah i know... Clinton and the Black Eyed Peas... go figure. lol.)
now that i've taken way too long to simply explain my title... the weekend's been full to say the least. friday's game was, umm allright i guess, coach seemed to be pretty happy with it. yesterday i woke up and went to the soccer game, where the weather was gorgeous (unlike the usual Highland Park-ish weather lol) and they played well. singing went well too- our first gig and already we're exceeding my expectations haha! we played a game of "i've never" while we were there, and i lost unfortunately (but considering who i was playing with, that's not such a suprising thing i suppose.)
from there Adam and I piled our stuff in Clinton's car and went out to retreat. and retreat was a whole lot of fun... aside from a few awkward conversations that is. serving jana was, of course, the highlight of my night. Paula has now learned that i'm not joking when i say i come from a very affectionate group of friends... oh, the look on her face! lol. and i've now seen "the italian job"- it was pretty good, and yes, i really was awake the whole time. anyways i'd better go... hope you all had a great weekend!

boys of summer...

okay... so this entry really has nothing to do with summer boys, but i'm kinda trying to stick to song titles for my entries for a while... so i guess it was just the first thing that popped into my head after recent conversations lately. hope you all are adjusting well to the third week of school (my gosh... third out of so many!!! ugh!) after that awesome retreat. (although in relevance to the title... i hate it when summer flings draw out into something that everyone knows would never work anyway... what a terrible waste of time, feelings, and words.)
so... new discussion entry... is honesty really the best policy in every situation? i wonder sometimes whether it is or not. obviously, it's generally the best thing to do. but what do you do in those grey areas that Moses himself wouldn't dare to take a black-and-white position on? i dunno... it just seems to me like sometimes honesty is the greater of the two evils. lol. such vital decisions as we get older, huh?
the "butterfly effect" thing's kinda creepy when you think about it. maybe i'm just the only one that thinks so... but seriously, the cause-and-effect relationships between such tiny little things are really kinda disturbingly worrisome. okay that last sentence really made next to no sense, but i really was trying. anyways, i guess that's enough for tonight... (don't forget to stop by two of our recently recovered blog sites, since shane(for a while) and adam(since may) were dead to blogging and have now returned... at least for now!) so sweet dreams and have a great friday!

wake me up when september ends...

okay... so i stole the title from Christa... (sorry) but it was a great title for an even better song. i dunno why it's pretty much my favorite song right now... maybe cause it makes me realize that i'm not the only one that would like to just go to sleep and not wake up till some part of my life is already over and done with. maybe it's cause it sounds so cool. maybe it's cause i'm pop-culturally fickle. okay well not that last one, but it was a sad attempt at humor that you should at least try to appreciate. lol.
i expect to see more of you than normal at our v-ball game friday. i dunno how well we'll do with a whole front row out, but at least it's worth a try. good experience i guess. i really had fun playing last night at any rate. you all need to make it to at least one game this year. at least senior night (yay seniors! all two of them!) cause otherwise i'll be very very sad.
anyways, it's getting late and you're getting bored reading this so i'd better go get some sleep (since i had to try SO hard to keep awake today.) night everyone.

retreats and reprimandings...

hello everyone!
the retreat is done, and for those of you who claimed we would be the worst senior class ever: if you haven't renounced that previous statement by now, then i'm afraid you'll never be happy lol. but it seriously was lots of fun... there will always be things to miss, and yet there's so much to add to the wonderful life you already had. i dunno... i was thinking last night talking to drew and clinton about how that was our last retreat, and none of you underclassmen can really understand how incredibly weird that feels- almost like your consistent set of events is slipping just in time to show you that you have a very small amount of time left to have what you have- weird feeling. hmmm... i'm debating... (those of you who thought you were brilliant in sneaking out in the wee hours of the morning last night and doing all sorts of dumb (under the circumstances) things that could have had serious detrimental consequences... and actually thought you'd get away with it: the only reason you didn't get seriously in trouble was because of the grace of the few seniors that happenned to have known about it, so i wouldn't be so proud of being "sneaky" if i were you... there, i promise that was my only meanness for the night!) anyways i really am glad that it went without any major hitches except taylor's little "trip" lol. some great highlights:
1) Clint and Stewart and their crazy "wugs!" lol
2) Myers making a wonderful attempt at humor in band practice this morning
3) trying to actually be mean in MI (you're so lucky LB!)
4) laughing with the girls in the common room
5) seniors' night (and late night talks)
6) THE BASEBALL GAME!!! (we will never forget these two retreats and our wonderful constant improv teams!)
7) listening to Addison... or trying... and yet being really proud of him at the same time
8) laughing at every other phrase that comes out of Mr. Williams' mouth
and there are plenty more of course, but it's getting late, and now my mind is really focusing on the lowlights instead, which is no fun, so i guess i'll stop lol.
i'd better see all of you that don't have previous plans at the football game tomorrow... and of course i'd better see my graduates over break this weekend... i'm counting on it!