Caroline says "HI!"

Yeah, Caroline says hi! She's here, sleeping over. FUN! Fun is a normal thing to have when you're within a 2 mile radius of her. If you're not having fun. you're probably at a funeral. Wait, no, she would find some way to enjoy a funeral. Hold on, she wants to type something:

Hello! This is Caroline! I enjoy doing random things! Today's random word of the day is (Drum roll pleeaaaseeeee!)

DIN SUM!!!!!!

Thank you for listening to my gay segment! :-)

Wow. That was weird. But that's Caroline!!! Haha! Just a taste of what I listen to EVERY DAY, usually more than once. So today I watched an extremely creepy movie on earthquakes in Geography, had a quiz in math, and a really boring ELA class (which I made more fun by drawing hippies on the board. LOL!) Computers was...also boring. And science was.... still boring! Oh well. After school was way more fun. Jen J and I were going to go to the mall, and then Caroline wanted to come. So Caroline and I were in the car going to get Jen when Heather called and wanted to come too, so we picked her up, then got Jen, and raced to the mall. We saw Rachel in JC Penny, and continued on getting followed by this creepy old guy. Then at Starbucks, I was asking for Jen's opinion on weather I should get an Apple Fritter or Lemon Glaze Cake (no, I can't explain why their names for pastries so weird) , and they guy behind the counter ordered me to get the apple one. It was as strange a Bill (see below entry)! But the thing tasted amazing, so thanks weird guy behind the counter! After getting two birthday presents for friends, we returned to the car and laughed about Ms. Bilunas's fanny pack all the way home! And now we're here, watching a lunch dude on "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader". So far, I've learned that I'm not. :) Oh, and a birthday shout out to Jen K and Rachel! :D HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Life is Good

Wow, I really hate those shirts. They're just gay. So are crocks, but that's beside the point. Life is good right now. We had a geography test today which I aced. Math was actually pretty fun. ELA was just a typical ELA, and Science was better than usual cause I got to hang out with BF which was nice. The only bad part of my day was gym, and that's because we had to run a mile while getting timed. I beat last year's record with 9:45! Yay! I pretty much jogged the whole way though. I ran half of half of half of half a mile, which is 1/16. It's not just sad that I'm able to figure that out, but also that that's all I felt like running. Can you blame me, though? Wednesdays are so not fun because it's right in the middle of the week, when you really wish it was Friday. That make another day of the week that I hate. So far it's Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. That 3/7 of a week, which is extremely sad! Wow, it must really sound like I hate life right now. But I just said "Life is good" so that doesn't really make sense. Oh well. I'm confusing myself. That's another thing that life is: confusing. What else is life.... oh, weird! Weird is the opposite of normal, and life is anything but normal. And life is interesting, to say the least. Like this guy that called my mom today. His name was Bill. I picked up when he called, and he thought I was my mom, so he starts talking to me about how he's a democrat and voting for Barack Obama and how he helped campaign for Nikki Tsongas and John Kerry and all these other political powerhouses. And when I told him that my mom wasn't home, he asked where she was, what she was doing, what her cell phone number was, and when she would be home. When I tried to hang up, he asked me where I lived, how long I've lived here, and something else, but I hung up on him right in the middle of a sentence cause I got totally freaked out. I swear, this guy was a CREEP! That's another thing life is: creepy. It just kind of... is. I mean, when you think of all the scary and disturbed people out there, it's creepy! :) Still, life is, in one word, amazing.

The party, the "reunion", and the dance.

NEWSFLASH!!! The date of the fall dance was changed to NEXT WEEK!!! October 3rd, to be exact. I'm incapable of expressing how excited I am! The dances are the only good reason to go to school, besides getting to see most of my friends on a daily basis. But the dance thing wasn't the best part of my last few days (which reminds me, sorry for super late post!). Stephanie's mocktail party was. Best. Party. Ever. The mocktails were amazing, karaoke and the prank calls were so funny that my ribs hurt from laughing after, and the thought of Heather with the chocolate fountain made me crack up right in the middle of a science test today. Well enough about the fun stuff, let's move onto my normal boring life! I had an extremely small family "reunion" on Sunday. Just a little bit of my dad's family who hasn't seen each other in, what, a year? I would hardy call that a reunion. Aren't you supposed to have like a 10 year reunion where everyone gets hats that say their last name on them? Yeah, I've never been to one of those. Maybe they only exist in movies. Who knows. So my little family "gathering", let's call it, was not very fun. 1.Because I don't have any cousins my age, so I sat between my dad and 93 year old Great Aunt Claudia. 2. Because I ate too much and go sick afterwards. 3. Because I finished Breaking Dawn, the last book in the Twilight series, that day. OK, so that doesn't really have anything to do with the family thing, but it's still sad! Anyway, today and yesterday were just more boring days, in case you were wondering. Test, worksheet, test, review, test, notes..... and so my boring life continues.

STOP SHAKING!

You know what I love? A really intense dance class. That's exactly what I got last night. Tap was fun, jazz was hilarious (a reminder of why I love Thursday nights) but ballet was, and I can't believe I'm saying this, amazing. I worked soooo hard and it actually payed of for once. Of course I can't feel my legs now, but there's a good explanation for that. So we were doing our normal bar warm-up- grande-plié, stretch, grande-plié, stretch. But then, my left leg started quivering. At first just the normal vibration that shows when you're building muscle, but then like a full earthquake. And it wouldn't stop!!!! Every time I bent my leg, it started shaking furiously. After a while I got used to it but then I went into split with my right leg and that started shaking too, 10 times worse than the left leg! It felt like the ground was vibrating, but I pushed harder and got closer than I've ever been to getting a full split. Yay! But that was just Thursday. Now it's Friday, and I couldn't be happier. Friday and Saturday are my two favorite days of the week. Today we had a test on the states, capitals, and abbreviations of the United States and I think I got them all right except for Alabama because I couldn't remember the capital: Montgomery. Stupid Montgomery. Math was nothing special, just a pre-test on fractions, a lesson on how to use a protractor, and getting back yesterdays test (94%!) When I walked into English, there were shreds of magazines all over the floor from a collage project we're doing (my hands still hurt from all the cutting!). In AE we had to take the test that a person takes to become a citizen of the United States. I figured out that if I wasn't born here, they would never allow me in. Out of 25 strangely hard questions about our country (how many times has the Constitution been changed?) I only got 11 right. Although it was 4 points higher than the average of the rest of my class. But science was where things got really out of hand. Demented circles, counting worse than a kindergartner's, LED lights, and atoms Bob, Bob, Bob, and Frank were just part of it. Trust me, you don't want to know the rest. Now it's 5:29, I'm hungry, and I'm going to the mall with Jen to get Stephanie a birthday present. In case you didn't know, her birthday is in 3 days. I'm positive she wanted me to tell you that. Steph's the one in my above picture that does NOT look like a freak (in case you're extremely unobservant, she's the one on the left). We were getting ready for the American Idol concert, taking amazing pics and putting on piles of eye makeup. Dinner is ready, I have to go to the mall, and my Friday night adventures are waiting. You will miss me, I'm sure.

An up-side-down kinda day

What, did you expect me to post a normal picture of myself? I think not! So today was ok: an easy social studies test, confusing math papers, sentence structure in English, a strange kind of theater class (character development is not something that we would normally do, but I worked on it over the summer at a theater camp, so it's not a problem) and an overtalkitive science class. Fun? I think not! After school, I have nothing to do but homework, so I suggest you call me ((if I gave you the number)). The countdowns continue: 37 days til the dance and 24 more days til DC! I couldn't help thinking today how I wished it was still summer- going to American Idol Concerts in a thunderstorm with Stephanie, calling Kiss 108 just to bug them, going nuts over David Cook and wearing my lungs out only days before a show, getting stuck in traffic and yelling to strangers with High School Musical posters and apparel. I'd give anything to be there right now. Instead, I'm writing this for your enjoyment. I must go study now, dear friends, and I ask that you distract me with an IM of phone call. Have an up-side-down kinda day!

38!

What's 30-16+24? 38!!!! That's how many days until our school dance!! YES!! Yeah, it sounds way too far away, but I'm already planning!! It was the only thing I could do today without being bored with another day of school. I learned nothing. Just reviewing. In every class. The day started with a short and weird Geography class and ended with a Science class spent mostly on people sharing stories about atomic bombs and our teacher explaining how an atom is like a school dance (don't ask me!). Fun. But now I'm in my room, typing away on my laptop, reviewing strategies on how to get the stupid fan in Geo to face away from me so I don't have to go chasing after my papers again, and calculating how much money I would have to spend to get the perfect outfit for the October dance. But the dance isn't my only countdown: DC in 15 days! So many things to look forward to, but none coming fast enough. It's only the beginning of the week and I already need a vacation!! Ahhh! So there's not much to write about, the current events in my life are slow. If you invent a time machine, please tell me. And for those of you that know what I'm talking about, let's bring Kevin!!!!

I was wrong

I was wrong. I hate Mondays too. Yes, they're just as bad as Tuesdays (http://ablogaboutagirl.blogspot.com/2008/09/tuesdays-are-way-too-boring.html). After two days of sleeping until 10 am, I really didn't enjoy getting up at 6 again. So today was hot, humid, and quite boring. ELA was just going over a test that i got an A+ on and looking up vocabulary words that I already knew. Math consisted of getting another quiz back (102%!) and more geometry, the one thing I hate about math. Geography was all about stuff we learned 4 years ago, and science wasn't much better. We got yet another quiz back (98%!) and watched a video about how scrabble letters are supposed to help us remember the definition of "elements". No, I don't know either. But the highlight of my day was in art when I was assigned to a seat that I know will be fun. Yes, that's the best part of my day, besides my friend making chocolate covered pretzels which I very much enjoyed (http://www.cooking101withcaroline.blogspot.com/). Haha! Yeah, you could say that without much theater going on in my life right now, it's pretty boring. ;) God, I hope tomorrow will have some drama!

Too busy, but not too bad.

September 11 was last Thursday. I had dance after school and homework so I didn't get a chance to write anything. Most people my age don't remember much of importance from that day 7 years ago. Once again, I am not one of them. I never seem to be in the same group as a majority of normal people, so I suppose this makes perfect sense. But anyway, here we are, 7 years later. It's strange to look back on that day and think of how we were all panicking, so afraid that our lives would end at any moment, to remember the day before, when our country was enjoying the growing population and praising itself on the wonderful government. Times have changed. I can remember being in kindergarten at the Catholic school that I was at for 3 months before I dropped out. The Principal, Sister something-er-ather, came on the outdated loudspeaker and told every child from kindergarten to 12th grade, every teacher, every faculty member, and every parent volunteer what had just happened to our country. No one spoke. At the age of 5, all I knew was that something bad had happened, something that may hurt people. I thought of this in the silence until someone gasped. It was loud enough to be heard in our class from many rooms over. We all heard it. After that, some started crying. Not the little kids, but the teachers. I was still struggling to figure out what was happening. I wanted my mother more than anything. I wanted to be safe at my house, in our green family room with the black TV and my little green chair, and the long drapes that I could hide myself in. But I couldn't be. School had just started. I had to get through the day. And I did. We all did.

How true is it? Only the flower knows.

(Picture and poem by my bffl Caroline (cbplante)

It's raining!!!

It's Saturday! Yay! The week went so fast, and now it's finally the weekend!!!! But I'm not really sure why I'm so happy about that considering that I have a ton of weekend homework. Oh well, I'll get to it eventually. Anyway, Thursday was my first dance class of the season. It felt so good to be back in the studio and stretch out again. The new tap warm-ups were amazing! But on Friday, everyone was going crazy. There was a football game last night and everyone was there. Of course, it had to rain. Just what I had wished for last week when it was 88 degrees. We lost. I have to be a bad luck charm for them because I've never been to a game that our team has actually won. So the night started out with me and a couple friends getting pizza and listening to "Hot n Cold" (my new favorite song). Then we went to the game and got drenched, not that we cared though. Lol. There were some drunk tail-gaiters in the parking lot. They asked if we wanted a hamburger. I really regret not telling them that we wanted a hot dog and singing the "hot dog" song (the theme song for our trip to DC). Haha! You are sooo DirectTV.

Tuesdays are way too boring

I hate Tuesdays. Most people hate Monday, but it's Tuesday that really gets to me. Monday is the start of the week (the important week- the school week), and for some reason, I'm usually excited (to see the boyfriend I never talk to, to see the friends that I probably saw over the weekend?) Today consisted of a too-easy science test, a terribly boring computer class, and not enough homework to keep my mind off things I don't want it to be on. The one thing I have to look forward to is in 31 days, my trip to DC with some of my best friends! Yes, we are skipping school, but the whole reason we're going is for academic stuff, so does it really matter? Anyway, by the end of the day I was over-excited to get out of that place. I went for a bike ride (it's freezing out) and returned home to find time to write this. So now I'm here, racking my brain about what to write. Tuesdays are just wayyyyy too fun.

Field Hockey and the Beach Look

I had to sit next to the fan again today. This time, it was set on high, so when I put pencils on my papers to hold them down, it blew the pencils onto the ground. Yay, another way to look like an idiot! Exactly what I need, as if I'm not enough of a freak, let's put the fan in front of me! Put the fan in front of anyone else and it would blow their hair around and give them that hot beach look. Me? I blink a lot and my hair gets tangled. Anyway, we had gym and I attempted to play field hockey. Instead, I ended up hurting people with the stupid ball. You could say I'm not exactly athletic. That's why I dance, because there usually aren't any sticks or rackets or anything else I could whack someone with involved. However, there are in theater, my favorite thing in the world. Like, last year in our school production of Mulan, I was Mulan's grandmother and had a cane. I ended up stabbing a few people's feet with it when I put it down. I truly feel bad for anyone around me when I have something that could potentially be used as a weapon because even when I'm really trying to be careful, I normally end giving someone some kind of bruise. I also tripped on air today. Luckily, I don't think anyone saw, but still its another example of how extremely clumsy I am. What a wonderful life I have.

The Fan and 10 Months of Misery

So we're back in school. There weather: more humid than it was all summer. :( What makes it worse? No AC. Just a single fan attempting to cool off whoever the lucky person sitting in front of it is. I was that lucky person last Friday in Geography, and I realized that I really wasn't that fortunate. My hair got messed up and my papers blew all over the room and landed right next to the teacher as he was talking about something important. I was too busy devising a way to get them back without getting out of my seat and looking like an idiot to listen. Just great. And to think that the day before school started, I barely got any sleep I was so excited. Well, mostly to see my friends, but that affect wears off pretty quickly once I've seen them all for two days in a row. Not that I get bored with my bffls, just that I know I'm going to see them every almost 5 days for the next 10 months. Wow. 10 months. That's how long I have to think about school until summer. I miss summer. Swimming in my friend's pool, bike rides every day after theater camp. But no, not now. Too much homework. Yup, even on the weekends, we still get homework. Fair? No. Can I do anything about it? No. Do I hate it? Ohhhhh yeah.

Welcome to my life!

This is a blog about a girl. That girl is named Cassidy. That girl is me.

When I'm alone, I dream.

When someone is with me, I laugh.

At a party, I dance.

When it's all over, I think.

I don't hold back.

There are reasons why you should care.

If you tell me to stand on stage in front of an audience, I'll sing.

If you tell me listin to a certain song, I'll blast it.

In a second you can become the single most important person in my life.

But if you hand me something and tell me to throw it at someone, I'll throw it at you.