Yes, surpries aren't that bad. Mrs. Wiewioria interrupted 3rd hour (ap lit) to ask me if I would go to a luncheon at noon (halfway into 4th hour). I obliged. Appearently, pat ryan "couldn't attend" and I was scheduled for the following week. So at 11:45 Stephanie Gilbert and I left our 4th hours to leave with Mrs. W. The luncheon, held at the Holiday Inn, was actually a meeting for the Rotary club, some kind of elitist group of muskegon's most prominent business people, doctors, etc. Because we were the student guests, we had to introduce ourselves. That was a little scary, but not tooo bad....until I said I wanted to attend HIGHSCHOOL at NYU. I didn't even know I said that until afterwards when stephanie told me!!! I feel like a dumb blond today. At least I got a free lunch, and I won $10 at the rotary meeting. The fun part was listening to the guest speaker, some politician who was involved in the peace corps in Russia. He showed us pictures and told us about his experiencs there.

After school I actually accomplished stuff (rather than taking a MUCH NEEDED nap). I got a haircut...so much better. The person told me that when I came in I looked like I was twelve, but now I look older. That's good because my bangs were annoying me. Then I headed to the Norton Shores library. I like it better than Hackely, plus I got all my business mags and put a Warped Tour cd on hold. That's all for now...

Alright, I felt special today...not because I turned 18, but because everyone went out of their way to make it NOT just another day. Thanks to Nikki, Jami, Katie, Jill, Andre, Kristen, Josie, Emily, Amanda, Ellen, Lauren, and whoever else I'm forgetting to mention. I appreciate all the "happy birthday"s and all the cards. I found it amusing that Nikki and Jami put streams, balloons, and hair mousse all over my car, wrapped it in plastic wrap, and wrote messages on the windows. Not to forget my new yearbook wand! lol. Andre and Jami stopped by tonight and that was fun as usual. I was actually surprised because although my family did not do much for my birthday, they actually expressed SOME effort and celebrating it. My mom even bought me a cake (regardless of how it tasted, or the fact that my sister and dad started eating it before I got a piece). Didn't get any presents from the family, but my sister says we're celebrating my birthday "tomorrow." Not a bad birthday at all.

I'll admit, it was nice when Mr. Schepich called my name and the class started cheering as I made my way onto the gymnasium floor. Somehow (don't know how), I made it onto homecoming court. I was completely surprised, but also felt honored that enough people in my class would nominate me. So now I get to ride around the track, smile, and wave at people. lol. Aside from that, Mrs. Miller finally assigned roles today. Scott and I are co-editors, or as he says "Two Kings." So that's a good thing. Other highlights of my day included the Hillsdale College visit (I was the only one to go to that) and, keeping with spirit week, that today was Western Day. Overall, I was happy today. I had to skip bon games to attend my three hour college class (almost fell asleep a few times), but that was fun as usual. The only sucky part of the day was all the calc homework I had to do tonight, as well as the english rewrite that I have yet to do. Right now I'm thinking homework is more important than sleep.

Printing the personal finance career paper right now...So today (as with every other sunday, pretty much) I was "Forced" to go to church. I don't have a huge problem with going, just that it doesn't do much for me. My mom went off on me when I reminded her that George's birthday party was at 5:00pm (the time church started). So I grudgingly went to church with the family. When we got there (really early) it was completly empty, except for about 5 old ladies. I asked if I could go to walgreens quick to get a card for george, but NO! If I did that my mom said she'd "call the cops and lock you [me] out of the house." Mom, you're really encourging of my faith. Don't bother to lead by example. Screw it! I already told her that I'm going to be a buddhist. It's just my opinion that my mom has ruined catholicism for me with her extremist, closed-minded views of everything. After church, I went to George's. There were a lot of people there, and I bet that almost no one knew that george and I share birthdays. But he had the party first, lucky bastard. lol. This is a bad time to have a birthday, though, because this weekend was hectic, this week is spirit week plus homecoming, and this weekend we're supposed to visit my family in dearborn. So I'll turn 18 and it'll be just another day. I guess I'll have to accept the fact that the world doesn't revolve around me.

"You can make out with her six-ways till sunday, but I'm the one with the vagina." Hahaha, SNL is great. Haven't watched that in a while. Tonight I went to Fremont's homecoming. It's weird how everyone makes such a big deal about it over there. Everyone's all dressed up, and they even have a photographer there. At catholic it's usually jeans and t-shirt. No big deal. But I still had fun going with Amanda. She's really nice. Jill and Jami also went, but I think it was their opinion that catholic dances are better. I just realized that I have THREE papers to write tomorrow. Fun.

Quiet night. Somehow it feels wasted, but I liked the time alone. If only my mom wouldn't have said anything. I take comfort in the glow of the tv and silence of the house. Only now I'm not feeling too well. Apart from being sick, I feel shitty. Don't know what is it, but I get agitated easily. Don't want it to be like this.