goodbye and hello

Well, as of yesterday, my friend M has departed for his new college, where I'm SURE he will be amazing (and if you're reading this, M, and you're NOT being amazing... then... START CRANKING THE AMAZING!). Anyhoo, good luck to M, and hopefully he'll be back for Christmas.
Anyway, I've just returned to working on the story that includes my 3 FAVORITE characters EVER: Shyasha Rinkari, Telsiel, and Sparraben. HOORAY! I don't know WHY I haven't written them for most of the summer. Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that it's summer and everyone forgets to do stuff during the summer. Or maybe it's the fact that... wow... school starts in 9 days. NINE! AAAHHH!
This isn't going to be pretty... I mean, I'm excited that I get to do AP classes and see my friends and meet the two freshmen who are apparently joining our lunch group and for Fall Formal and the musical and the music trip and all, and yet... next time I blog about how freaked out I am that there are 9 days left of summer, it'll be because I'm going to be a senior. I've watched the junior-senior rivalry go down for five years, and now I'm going to be one of the ones who will have to chant "JUNIORS!" when the seniors make fun of us in the senior play. And I'm going to be storming the stage on the last day of school, and I'm going to be doing the SAT and looking at colleges and apparently getting a lot more homework this year... EEEKKK!!!
Great. I feel old.
I mean, I still remember my first day at my current school (we're sixth grade through 12th). I was absolutely TERRIFIED because I couldn't find my TA room. And because it was a brand new school with seniors who made out in the halls and were twice my size when standing. Now I'm the tall one (but I SWEAR it's because the sixth graders are PUNY! Honestly, some of them aren't even five feet tall!!), and..... wow. It's craziness, I tell you! CRAZINESS!

STAR WARS!

Well, I just finished a Star Wars Original Trilogy marathon with one of my best friends, who, until yesterday, had never seen any of them. You know, although watching Star Wars back-to-back-to-back is kind of wearing, it's also sort of interesting - you can see the character development that has gone on between episode 4 and 5 and then from 5 to 6. It's also really fun to stop 'return of the Jedi' partway through and go to sleep, wake up, make pancakes, and then watch Ewoks kick some serious empire BUTT. What's also awesome was the fact that the Ewoks are basically little walking teddy bears (which is why it is so much FUN to watch them kick empire butt.). So far, her favorite character is either Chewbacca or Princess Leia. Personally, I like Leia and Han Solo and Darth Vader. (DARTH VADER IS AWESOME!)

So now we've stopped for a while - she's gone home and I'm here. Soon she'll return (her parents are taking her sister to college, which is a two-day endeavor for them), and we'll continue our movie marathon with the 'Shrek' series. We saw Shrek 1 yesterday, since she wanted to watch Shrek and I wanted to see Star Wars, so we decided we'd alternate between the two. That obviously didn't happen, mostly because Star Wars is not the type of series you alternate views with Shrek. We're doing Shrek 2 and Shrek 3 today, when she comes back.

HOORAY!