Smells Like Rain

So I'm sitting here attempting to almost work on my college apps for once, and it starts pouring outside.  Like one of those instant downpours.  I throw open the window and turn off the lights, and now i'm basically sitting in darkness and listening to the rain.  Does that sound emo?  But I love the rain and especially how it smells and feels.  Might've inherited that from my dad haha.  I remember when I was little, I used to always see him standing at the garage door just watching the rain and humming to himself. I thought it was weird.  Now I can kind of relate to that feeling, or maybe I'm just weird too.  That's a picture of the rain outside my window, in case you were wondering (it's a little hard to tell).  WOW I have no life.

Nothing's really happened in the past few days.  I went shopping for the first time in a billion years which was fun, and that's pretttty much it.  Stayed up until 3 on monday night working on my closet picture.  Probably failed that chem test.  Joined bio club because sarah told me to, but ended up slightly pissed off because me and sarah were going to do an event together, but then she drop-kicked me cuz gabe showed up.  And she complained to me that she feels like she doesn't have friends because she is always hanging out with gabe.  Well then.

Zain (my little frosh bass drummer from last year) said hi to me the other day which took me by surprise. "Son-Son" (pronounced "Sawn-Sawn" it's his stupid nickname for me) He quit drumline this year because he couldn't juggle marching band and soccer at the same time.  I kind of miss him even though he was really annoying.  I think I'm slightly bitter over the whole thing, which is ridiculous of me.  I only started thinking about this recently because while sorting through pictures for my highschool memories album (I'm making one at the end of senior year) I found a picture of us from last year's band camp.  Lol neither of us are even looking at the camera, but I really like this picture for some reason. (look, i have long hair!)

Oh wow I love rosh hashanah.  Getting a day off from school is so relaxing!  I woke up around 1 today, and finished brunch (ramen) around 3 lmao.  Then spent a few hours doing nothing and playing with my sister before eating chicken fajitas for dinner (yum).  Then kind of worked on my MIT app and managed to (sort of) answer 2 out of the 7 short essay questions. Yay!  Now i'm sitting here typing away and stuffing my face with sour patch kids.  I'd call it a day well spent.  I feel like I had homework, but I really don't care, lmao.  Time to sleep!

You Are The Dreamer, We Are The Dream

...I could write it better than you've ever felt it :)

Oh how appropriate because i'm writing my blog.  Incase you're confused, that's a line from "Hum Hallelujah" by Fall Out Boy (AKA my favorite band in the world).  I almost used "Sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills" for the title, but I felt like that would've been really misleading.  So I didn't.

Anyway, my blog is officially 1 year old!!  Technically it turned 1 on the 19th, but being the bad mother I am, i forgot.  So happy belated birthday!

Moving on.  Friday was an away game at Bound Brook!  It was absolutely pouring so it was made optional weather (haha get it) we wanted to go or not.  Being the idiot that I am, I went to the game.  Holy crap it was awful.  Our raincoats didn't do shit to keep us dry.  Somehow the inside got wet, so I just took it off and braved the downpour.  It was kind of cool though because our bass drums would gather so much water so whenever we played, the water would shoot like 3 feet in the air.  Long story short, we kicked their sorry asses, 47-6.  How embarrassing.  Later I was thinking about why I like marching band so much, and I decided it's partly because it serves as an excuse for me to get out of my house.  How sad. This weekend I barely went out because my parents claimed that I have sooo muucchh woorrkk.  Needless to say, I didn't do anything.  Ohhh but tonight I managed to break out for an hour to go to Red Mango (the love of my life) with some friends.  I am obsessed with their white peach, it's kind of a problem.  They also got apricot recently and it basically tastes the same as white peach, so i guess i am obsessed with that too.  Also a problem.

So today I spent most of my time being bored out of my mind and simultaneously attempting to do my art homework.  This week's assignment is to draw the inside of a closet.  It sounded like a pretty interesting assignment until i realized that every closet in my house is the epitome of neat and boring.  In the end I picked my almost messy closet.  I actually had to add some stuff to make it look messier, but whatever.  Here it is in its half-finished glory.  I kind of hate it lol.  Everything is so bland and it's hard to distinguish all the different objects.  (Btw, like my puppy pencil sharpener? Got it in china haha)  Hopefully I can fix that tomorrow cuz it's due on tuesday!  The only problem is that I have marching band tomorrow night, and then a chem test on tuesday that I desperately need to study for.  Seriously, I have no idea what the hell is going on in that class.  Oh senior year.

Here's a picture that I found extremely amusing.  It's from band camp!  See me in the corner?  How magical is that ?!  Anyway, I need to go read like 123948 pages for Doc Hen and then study for my psych test tomorrow.  Ha. Good night !

Highway Hypnosis

Jbeibs tour bus!?....turns out that was the name of the company

Yes, I get it, in a big way.  I've always known that I kind of experience it when I drive, but I didn't realized how bad it was until my dad and I drove to Cambridge on sunday.  Like holy CRAP.  Every few minutes he'd have to tell me to stop drifting, and by the time we were almost at MIT, I was fighting my body to stay awake and focused.  It was kind of awful.  On the brightside, MIT was amazing.  Out of all the colleges I've visited so far, it's probably my favorite since it "fits" me the best.  First thing we saw when we go to the campus was this crazy dorm.  It had a bunch of little windows, so basically your room could have ten windows in it.  How boss is that?  I've decided that's where i'm living...after i get in, obviously. :')

I want.

Anyway, we walked into the auditorium for the info session.  As we were all sitting there waiting for it to start, groups of guys wearing bright shirts and ties started chanting and freaking out all around the audience.  Everyone was like WTF ?? Then they proceeded to sprint to the stage and after a minute of shuffling around and getting ready, they started to sing their a cappella version of "Club Can't Handle Me".  Haha they were ammazzinngg.  I decided I liked MIT right away mostly because of them, lol.  Also their name was fantastic: The MIT Logarhythms. Ha. But MitLogs for short.  I got their EP they were selling afterwards :) Actually, i'm listening to it atm while blogging. "Down" by Jay Sean in case you were wondering.  After they finished singing, they promptly ran off the stage and the dean of admissions walked on and droned about facts and figures.  I'll give him props for his dry sense of humor, but I was literally falling asleep.  Embarrassingly enough, I was doing that head-bob thing where you fall asleep but then catch yourself.  The people behind me probably thought I had tourettes.  After the info sesh, we went on a tour of the campus which was really nice.  It wasn't as grand or rustic as harvard/yale/brown had been, but it was so goddamn cool.  My personal favorite was the student center.  It's made up of a bunch of different materials and crazy angles and shapes.  Kind of looked like it was from a Dr. Seuss book.

When we went into the architecture building, there was this giant cone-thing made of paper that extended from the first floor all the way to the 5th (it was one of those open sorta-spiral staircases).  I took a picture from the side, and then one from the top looking down.  How boss is that ??  Overall I really liked the architecture building.  There were these cool projects hanging up everywhere and posters of beautiful buildings and their interiors.  One had these giant shiny pillars that would reflect a pattern of lines on the floor.  Hard to explain, but take my word for it, it was amazing.  Also the students i saw working seemed really cool (and good looking, though they might've been gay).  Lol, also a lot of them were asian, but hey what do you expect?  Somewhere I could totally see myself :)

I really want to go sleep now, so i'll end the post here.  Not much else happened except for a delicious chicken caesar salad and a big bag of sour patch watermelons.  Friday night football game tomorrow!  Ah! Night !

This is the old MIT banjo club.  Lmao I thought it was absolutely hilarious.

Holy Grail

Me judging my section. Typical.

No, this post has nothing to do with the holy grail.  It's just the name of one of my favorite stands song :) FIRST FOOTBALL GAME OF THE SEASON, and it was fun!  Actually, i wouldn't say the actual football game was enjoyable to watch (since i still don't exactly understand it even after 4 years of marching band) but i love playing in the stands and being surrounded by excitement and loud shouting.  We performed our show for the first time in front of an audience, and it was surprisingly good.  I'm very proud of my section :) Also, mike will be able to march again in a little over a week and Mr. N ordered a new rim for my bass drum (mine cracked during freshman year after i dropped my drum (uh fell with it) but now it's completely split in half and is currently held together by a lot of duct tape).  Is it sad how much of my life is consumed by marching band?  I think i might even write about it for my common app essay.  We'll see.  Speaking of college apps.... they're driving me crazy!  I can't bring myself to make any actual progress on them except for filling in facts and figures.  I think i'm just worrying too much about getting rejected or not writing the "right" thing.  Ironically, i had an argument with my dad today about how he worries too much about stupid things that could be easily executed.  I really should take my own advice.  This kind of parallels what ed wrote about in his blog post today:  to not worry about the future and miss out on just growing up!   Wow story of my life.

Anyway, I need to wrap up this post before my mom shows up and "raises less corn and more hell".  Props to you if you know that quote off the top of your head....AP US History, nbd.  Tomorrow I'm off to MIT with my dad!  Hurray for crazy parents and 12 hour long drives!  Rooaadtrripp.  So, expect a blog tomorrow night about my adventures at that wild place they call MIT.  I heard it's a huge party school....lol.  But i've actually heard a lot of good things about it from some friends, so maybe the giant-nerd-theory will prove to be a misconception.  I really hope so.

That awkward moment when your dad walks in the room and tells you to go to bed right away because you can only get a maximum of 6 hours of sleep before waking up to drive all the way to Cambridge.  Yes, it just happened.

Okay, good night !  (Do I end all of my posts with that?)

Eggs.

My computer screen full of eggs lol. 

Oh debby.  Do you guys remember her from the Amanda Show ?  She's the one from the Girls Room that  really liked eggs.  Eggs are really fantastic, for eating, that is.  I could eat them all day and stock up on cholesterol.  But you know what they suck for? Drawing. My art homework this week is to draw 6-12 eggs on a patterned fabric (see? i wasn't just randomly reminiscing about the amanda show lol).  Anyway, you know what happens next:  ITS 10 AND I'VE BARELY STARTED.  It's expected, don't deny it.  And of course i'm blogging again instead of working on it hahaha.  I don't know why i'm blogging so much recently.  I think it's mostly due to my lack of drive to do anything mandatory or assigned.  Not a good way to start off senior year at all.

DONE.

...Funny story, it's now 3:30 am.  I'll finish this blog post tomorrow!

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Lol, like how i put the stars to signify that time has passed? Anyway, it's now friday and i just got home from school about an hour ago.

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I really enjoy this whole star thing.  Took a three and a half hour nap, and now I feel even more tired lol.  My body has finally experienced sleep and it wants more!  Anyway, here's my final egg drawing.  The picture i took of it is a little obnoxiously crooked, but deal with it all you OCD people.  Personally it's annoying me so much i can't even look at it. Haha I'm such a hypocrite.

On a different note, last night my dad called us while he was in the train coming home from work to tell us that there was a giant rainbow outside.  My mom, sister, and I literally bolted outside holding the camera looking like complete idiots.  The rainbow was barely visible, but I managed to take this cool picture.  Isn't it pretty? :)  The neighbors definitely think we're weirdos.

Something that's been really bothering me all day is that I found out this girl in my grade cuts herself.  Who is she?  The girl that i share mutual hate with.  I was browsing her blog last night, and she had posted pictures of her scarred wrist and thigh.  They were mostly healed so i'm guessing she doesn't do it very often, but it's scary to think about, and as much as I don't like her (at all), I'm really worried about her.  Victor thinks it's my own fault for intruding on her personal life and reading her blog.  According to her post, she doesn't want any help and says that she's perfectly fine.  She's not addicted to it, so i guess it's not mega serious, but i feel like something needs to be done.  Apparently she doesn't listen to anyone who tries to talk her out of it, including her boyfriend.  And her first sentence of the post is "If you have a problem with it, fuck off"  So i guess i should be "fucking off" but i'm not sure if i can.  I just can't get it out of my mind!  What drives people to take a knife to their wrist?  Holy crap.  I might post more on this topic later, maybe not.  Depends on what i decide to do.  Mostly likely, I won't mention it for a while, but if it gets more serious, i'll have to rethink that decision.  There isn't an easy solution to this.

On to a happier topic!  Tomorrow is the first home football game!  The band is performing for the first time (without mike since his ankle is still messed up) and i'm excited for stands music!  Technically it's sits music...oh the humor.

Also, I'm happy that ed decided to make a blog! Now we can be bbbfs! (Best Blog Buddies Forever!) I completely just pulled that out of my butt, but the alliteration has a nice ring.  It's made of diamonds.  Ha.  I am butter today, get it? Cuz i'm on a roll.

Oho.  Puns.  Good night!

Cat and Whisker Plot

Lol @ my sister pulling my hair

I blogged only two days ago, but for some reason i felt like blogging again.  I don't really have anything interesting to post so i'm not sure why i'm doing this.  Also, i don't even have time at the moment to post about china.  That'll happen eventually.  I hope.

If you were wondering about the blog title, it's dedicated to KBoyd.  Since i'm working on AP Stat homework as i type this blog, i thought it would be fitting.  You know those data diagrams called Boxplots, also know as Box and Whisker Plots?  When the teacher asked us for the name, kevin just calls out "Cat and Whisker Plot!!"  It was absolutely fantastic.  If you don't know kboyd, you're probably thinking to yourself "wow sonya has lame stories and a stupid sense of humor" but if you do, well, you'd agree with me :)

Lately i've been thinking of changing the layout of my blog.  Mainly just the background and colors.  I also want to find a new name for my blog.  Like come on, "Sonya's Blog", really?  After i do that, i can make a banner for the top!  I'll probably ask mara or someone to take artsy pictures of me.  Something like [ this ], [ this ] or [ this ].  By the way mara, if you're reading this, we should definitely make you a banner too!  Also, update your blog :)

Not much is going on.  Sitting here and not studying for my two big tests tomorrow.  Figures.  The best part is that I really need to do well on the chem one since i got a 76% on the last quiz.  Actually, the best best part is that i haven't done any of the homework from this chapter.  Oh senior year.  If you haven't noticed, i included two pictures from the china trip!  Randomly picked two, maybe this will remind me to post more later! Ha.

Also, I was thinking about that night that i took pictures of my family blowing bubbles.  Remember that post?  It's pretty old.  But i was looking at the pictures and they were gorgeous! I think i'll try it again sometime soon and play around with the ISO on the camera and whatnot.....possible banner ?  I think yes.

They barely look like bubbles at all!  They're like little neon light-segments, so pretty :)

Anyway, I need to go study!  Writing this blog about nothing helped me to unwind a little.  You'd think i'd function better under stress after last year, but i'm still the same haha.  Random, but i was just thinking about somehow mounting my iFlip onto my bass drum later in the season to record the show from my perspective.  How cool would that be?  In AP Lit we've started reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and it's written in this cool style called "stream of consciousness".  Basically the story follows whatever path the protagonist's thoughts go, so it ends up sounding disjointed and ADD.  My blog kind of reminds me of that hahaha, maybe i should name it Stream of Consciousess.  But at the same time that sounds a little on the dumb side.  Time to stop rambling and study! For real this time.

Marching band practice tomorrow night!

Good night :)

Bug-bites, Bruises, and Blisters..... BAND CAMP 2011 !

So I just got home from band camp a few hours ago!  Like how i'm blogging about this right away, but haven't done china yet?

Artsy shot of the snares

Anyway, it was very. painful.  It hurts to move lol.  That's why i'm staying put in this comfy computer chair.  So we left school at around 2 on friday, and got there at 5.  Ate. played and marched. slept. ate. played and marched. ate. played and marched. got sunburned. played and marched. etc.   I can clarify if you haven't gotten the pattern yet, just ask.

Turned out that our freshman (Bass 1) decided to come to band camp late in order to play in his soccer game (which he technically isn't supposed to do since he's a bass drum) and ended up spraining his ankle! Now he's out for atleast a week.  Itkor got pretty mad.  I was annoyed too, even though i felt kind of guilty because after all, he DID get hurt. But still, if he had just came up to band camp with us, he would've been fine.  Also, he's the one who needs practice the most out of all of us, and band camp is best place for him and his ego to get a reality check.  Ryan suspects that itkor wants to replace him with Matt Owww but i doubt that's the case or else itkor would be the biggest idiot on the face of the planet. 

Girls from my cabin! Banyan!

Moving on.  Funny story, so today ryan decided to throw my mallets across the pavilion, and eventually they landed in the bathroom.  When i went in to get them, they closed the door and held it so i couldn't get out.  Can't you tell that my section loves me?  Also, miller likes to send people messages from my phone, and on the bus ride back, he had my phone with him!  Mara thought it'd be really funny to text my phone "Lauren found your bra in the cabin.  The lacey one, she said she'll give it to you later" GOOD ONE MARA, GOOD ONE.  And of course miller read it since he doesn't know about this thing we call privacy.  He knew that it was a joke though. Smart kid. 

Also last night, me and sarah decided to superman banana on the basketball court literally 5 minutes before we had to be in our cabin.  It's about a 5 minute walk away too.  This old guy watched us while we superman banana'd and he probably thought we were on drugs.  I don't blame him though lol.  (That's the superman pose).

Me and Miller! ( 4th bass ) Can you tell that i forced him to take this pic?

All in all, i thought this year's band camp was fun! Maybe not as intense and rainy as other years, but i really like my section this year.  It's my little dysfunctional family!  They are annoying as hell, but i'm going to miss them :(  We still have all season to go though! So I really shouldn't be thinking sad thoughts like that.  It's well, sad.

First football game next saturday!

So now i'm extremely tired.  Time to catch up on sleep! 

The Beginning of the End

Clever title right? I stole it from mara's fb status. :) Not even going to pretend i thought of that.
So today was the first day of SENIOR YEAR.  Which is pretty mind-blowing to say the least.  My schedule is pretty good, minus the fact that i have 7th period lunch. AKA hunger pains starting at 4th and lasting till then.  And don't forget the gurgles and grumbles.  Those are always fun.  My classes are pretty good this year for the most part.  0 period gym will be awesome like always (but a giant pain-in-the-butt to wake up for).  1st period AP Psych kind of sucks so far.  Klein is fantastic (i love his dry sense of humor) but i literally have no friends in that class.  The closest person to possibly being my friend is devind, and all he ever talks about is school.  Just what i need.  But he's nice, so my new goal is to eventually steer one of our  conversations away from school and in the direction of, well, not school.  2nd period i had band today (it's band/lab but i have band on tuesdays, thursdays, and fridays).  I was really happy to find that my little basses had the same days as me :).  Nothing really happened in band except ALEX AGRESTI GIVING ME A SIGNED FALL OUT BOY ALBUM BOOKLET. But i mean, nbd i guess. (In case you guys don't know, i'm kind of very in love with Fall Out Boy.  The sad news ? They pretty much disbanded on my birthday 2 years ago.) Anyway, that made my day, needless to say.  And i just rhymed 3 times in a row.  And in that last sentence there was a slant rhyme.  Ha.  Moving on.  3rd period was AP Chem with Geech ! I'm so glad i took the class since he's teaching it, but the downside is that since i skipped honors chem sophomore year in order to take honors physics, i don't know a single ounce of chemistry!  It's kind of confusing to start with, but i'm putting the extra effort into memorizing all the ion-things that we need to know for friday's quiz.  I even made flashcards!  Ha, we'll see how long this lasts.  The people in that class are good though! I sit at a lab table with courtney (her parents are both chemists) and in front of sarah (who was pretty helpful today!).  I also sit next to thomas and victor (they're at a lab table together).  Our row is basically the "Stupid Row" since me, victor, and thomas all did physics instead of chem.  It's 1:16 so maybe i should get a move on this blog haha.  Getting up at 6 for gym should be a blast. I can't wait.

Okay so a quick run down of the rest of my day: 4th was Doc Hennessy for AP English.  My seat is in the front row, and i'm slliigghttly scared shitless for that class.  She might be even more intimidating than hornstein ! But at the same time, i'm kind of looking forward to reading the giant stack of novels she showed us and writing some essays (wait, am i dumb?).  I figured out that if i just approach those with the same attitude i approach blogging with, then i should be just fine!  Emotionally that is.  My grades probably won't be just fine hahaha, but lets not think about that for now.  Okay, so by then my stomach noise had risen from a piano to a mezzo-piano.  Next up was AP Art II with crazy bill Mr. V.  Our first homework assignment is to draw eggs!  How eggciting. Ha, see what i did there?  I pulled a Klein.  Anyway, the people in my class are kind of random.  Mostly artsy juniors, and then there's lylah and robby fay.  (They're all in AP I though, i'm the only one in AP II. crap.)  Not much happened except Mr. V making fun of Emily Baumer's Hookah drawing from last year.  He didn't mention her name, but he told the class how this person was really proud of a hookah drawing and wanted him to enter it in like every show.  So eventually he caved, and the drawing didn't win shit.  Apparently a bunch of judges and teachers asked him what the hell he was thinking when he entered her drawing, and he was like "chill, wasn't my call".  Lets move on to 6th period before i digress more.  That was AP Stat, which was kind of boring.  Speaking of which i still haven't done the homework for that class. Oh well.  Something interesting that happened was that i learned i'm a liberal.  Yay politics.  The rest of my class seem to be moderates or conservatives (I also happen to be the only girl).  Next was lunch (FINALLY), and this year i have the same period as emma!  We were preeetty excited because we've never had lunch together until now.  (SENIIOORRSS!!) Ate a healthy meal of fries and a vitamin water before going to hell.  Oh wait, did i just say that? I meant AP Japanese.  Haha, but that was an exaggeration.  It sounds extremely intimidating, but i really enjoy japanese, so i think it'll end up being okay if we don't all go insane from the course-load first.  Just staying positive.

Now it's 1:30.  Why does this always happen?

So after school I went to Staples with Dan and Victor to get school supplies.  It was pouring! Actually, I had already finished my shopping a week ago, but i went because i'm in love with back-to-school shopping.  It's probably not healthy.  After that i went home and basically passed out in the playroom.  I think i somehow managed to unconsciously play dress-up with my sister.  Or maybe she just dressed me up while i was out cold.  Who knows.  I certainly don't remember.  After being stuck in a weird limbo state for about an hour, i finally summoned my strength to go upstairs and turn the computer on....for facebook.  Ha. Like you even expected me to start my homework that early.  Surprisingly I did get a lot of it done today!  I even started an essay that isn't due until friday.  Now that's quality work ethic.  But tradition is tradition, and i didn't touch my math homework. :)

Partyin' partyin' yeah!

Good night !

I'm a....SENIOR ??

Wow, it feels so weird.  I can't believe i'm going to be a senior this year ! Like holy crap.  It's almost 11 so i should probably go sleep soon.  Don't want to be late for my first day ! Haha, but i probably will be anyway.  I'd blog about my schedule now, but i don't want to look like a loser when i guess wrong, so i'll save that for tomorrow.  I'm excited!  Well, mostly at least.  It'll be a nice change to see everyone, everyday, but the best part?  HOMEWORK !! NOT SLEEPING !! Omg can't wait.

I also still need to organize my bag and pick out what to wear tomorrow! Ahh !! Why am i always so last minute ??  On the brightside, i barely did any of my AP jap hw this summer! Oh wait....

Just kind of noticed that this blog post is overloaded with sarcasm.

It's also extremely disjointed and digressional.

But yeah, i don't feel like a senior at all! Well, i mean, i am pretty mature, so i guess it makes sense.

Or maybe not at all.  (Took the pic in china btw).

Which reminds me that i still need to post pics/stories from china.  Oh! and from camp! Wow i'm behind, but hey what's new.


That's enough pointless ranting for tonight, i need to get ready for tomorrow !!


Ahhh!!!


Wish me luck!


SENIORS 2012 !!