Dentist

My dentist has this new fluoride. Instead of the foam in the trays, this new stuff gets painted on your teeth. You can't eat for half an hour and it comes off when you brush your teeth that night. As much as the foamy fluoride sucked, I liked it better than the paint variety. It makes my teeth feel disgusting and everything I eat with it on tastes slightly off. On the plus side, I have no cavities for the seventeenth year running.

The Other 4/20

As a high schooler, it's hard to go the entire day of April 20th without hearing about pot. Sadly, it's easy to go without remembering Columbine. The shooting occurred twelve years ago today, and many ignore, or don't know about it, even here in Colorado, not too far from the town. I find this to be a disheartening fact, and would simply like to say that I haven't forgotten.

Blerg

Obscenely busy day, for a day with no pit practice. Too much homework.

Giant Balloon

I am currently the proud owner of a huge balloon. It's larger than my microwave and I have no idea what to do with it. At the moment, it's tied to my phone. It has enough helium to hold my phone up on its side, but not to lift it into the air, which disappoints me. It's a glaring emerald green because I took it from the Wizard of Oz set after the last show. It was difficult to take home, because it block my rear view mirror until I shoved it down into a seat. It's pretty useless. Mostly I just enjoy the novelty of having a balloon that's larger than a small child.

This is what I am counting as my post for today

Today, I was an accomplice in the murder of a pineapple. Today, I played music until my lips hurt and then kept playing because the musical wasn't over. Today, I rode in a trunk. Today, I got a giant green balloon that is larger than both my dogs together. Today, I climbed two ladders in heels to try to open a trapdoor in the dark. Today at twelve o'clock in the morning, I was at Applebee's with the rest of the pit, having difficulty figuring out the check. It has been a very enjoyable day.

A Day Late

Yesterday was a busy day of shopping, playing, and frantically trying to blog from my friends' phones at Applebee's at 11:30. I didn't manage it, but I did try, at least. So I'm counting this as my post from yesterday. One of my favorite parts about productions is the after party. It's usually after the last show, but because the last show is on a Sunday, we had our party last night.

Late post, long day

In chemistry today, I found a note that said "Mainstreamers! You suck at picking music! Independent FTW!"

I responded by writing "Dear Judgmental Person, Using chat speak phrases like "FTW" is very common and what you may call "mainstream." Love, Do Better At Pretending to Be Superior to Us All

Performing Today

So not much posting time. More free time than I've had, though.

Today was long, and

Full of injuries, but fun.

Frozen Peas Make a Good Ice Pack

Currently holding frozen peas against lips. They hurt from playing so much. And there's another long rehearsal and competition tomorrow.

Tired

Today begins hell week for the play. That means rehearsal until nine, daily, with opening night on Thursday. It also means short blogs to follow.

A Short Explanation of an Unusual Possesion

Among all the random stuff in my room, gathered from seventeen years of garage sales and thrift stores, there is a jar of sand. A few months ago, I decided to start collecting sand from beaches that I visit. I found a decorative jar that my mom gave me a long time ago and put it to use. So far, there's a layer of black sand from my hourglass that I accidentally broke, a layer from California, and a layer from Florida. At the top are two paper drink umbrellas. I'm hoping to fill it completely in the next few years.

Book

Today, I finished reading my last library book, The Last of the O-Forms & Other Stories by James Van Pelt. It was a collection of mostly sci-fi short stories, and I wasn't sure if I'd like it. I did enjoy it though, more than I'd thought I would. My favorite story was "Do Good," about a vice principal who keeps seeing ghosts around his school.

Well,

I honestly cannot think of something substantial to post today, and it's only the eighth day of BEDA. So here's a question: If you could have any one super power, which one would you want to have? I'd want to be able to fly.

A 50 Word Story

The octopus floated lazily around the ocean. Someday, he decided, he'd use his eight arms to do something productive. He could volunteer at a soup kitchen and serve eight people at once. Or he could be an amazing drummer in a band. He thought the sea horse was starting one.

Inspired by 50 Word Stories

It's a long way until summer

The longest part of the school year is always the few weeks between spring break and the end of the semester. Last week was spring break, and so it begins. Every day starts to drag on. Everyone contracts senioritis, not just the seniors. No one wants to do homework at this point in the year.

Unfortunately, I have to take big important tests soon. The ACT, SAT and AP tests are all coming up. I'm not looking forward to any of them, just like I'm not looking forward to the homework assignments or the tests or the finals or anything else before summer break.

Bumper Sticker

I love getting stopped at lights behind cars that are plastered with bumper stickers. I like reading them, even the stupid jokes, and the "Honk if.." stickers. They add color and personality to the outside of your car, even if they're a little tacky. The best bumper sticker I ever saw said "Somebody told me you're paranoid."

My Sister Writes Long Blog Posts

Yesterday, my sister published a post complaining about my comment that her posts are too long. I would like to say that her complaint post is a lovely, short length, perfect for light reading.

The Wizard of Oz is following me

Our school is performing The Wizard of Oz as our spring musical. I'm playing in the pit orchestra, so naturally, the songs have been stuck in my head. It wasn't until after a couple weeks of rehearsals that I realized how often the Wizard of Oz shows up in different adaptions and parodies.

The first was Tin Man, a SciFi (sorry, SyFy) original mini-series. Only the first episode really followed TWoO, but it was an interesting story nonetheless. The costumes were very well done, as were the sets, which is typical in SyFy movies. There were a few plot holes, and more clichés than any one mini-series should have, but I liked it anyway.

A few weeks later, I was watching Futurama, when I came upon the Wizard of Oz episode. It was a typical enough episode, just with a Wizard of Oz theme. The next week, my sister and I were watching Scrubs and ended up seeing my dad's favorite episode, the Wizard of Oz one: My Way Home. JD just wants to go home, Carla is looking for the courage to be a mother, Turk needs a heart for a transplant, and Elliot is pretending to be smarter than she is.

This past week, I was in Florida with the music classes at school. In Disney's Hollywood Studios, (I think, all the parks run together in my mind. Except Animal Kingdom, for some reason.) my group of friends went on the Great Movie Ride. One of the rooms you go through is a Wizard of Oz room. We had to sit and listen to the entire Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead song, then our guide had an exchange with the Witch of the West. Later on the same trip, the choir was performing in Downtown Disney, and one of the songs they sang was Over the Rainbow. I'm getting tired of the Wizard of Oz already and it's not even close to the performances.

Lit Con

Today, I spent all day at the Colorado Teen Lit Con in Denver. This is my second year going, and I love it. This year, I went to a local author panel with Alane Ferguson, Carrie Vaughn, Ronald Cree, Sarah Ockler, and Traci Jones. All of them were wonderful and amusing to listen to, even though I have yet to read any of their books. I also went to Katie's (of Katie's Book Blog) talk about how to become a book blogger. It was interesting, but it's more of something that my sister wanted to do. That last session I went to was a discussion about how YA books can be used to ask essential questions, such as What does it mean to be human? It seemed to be geared more toward teachers looking for suggestions, but I enjoyed it. I ended up there when I couldn't find the room for the Blue Spruce Nominee Talk.

The keynote speakers this year were Rachel Vail and Pete Hautman, both of whom were entertaining and hilarious in completely different ways. Rachel was animated and dramatic, acting out her speech at the podium. Pete had a dry, witty sense of humor like Garrison Keillor. Both of them were lovely and I'm looking forward to reading their books.

I ended up going home with ten new books, six of which I got for free by managing to go to the right talks. I also got a handful of mockingjay temporary tattoos which I will be gleefully reapplying until I run out. The first one is on the underside of my forearm.

April Fool's Day

Today is April first, making it April Fool's Day and the first day of Blog Every Day in April, which I am attempting to complete this year. Given my habit of procrastination and unreliable work ethic, it'll be a challenge. It should be fun though. Most likely, all my posts will be short.

I can only ever remember pulling one prank for April Fool's Day. When I was little, I would move the silverware around in its organizer, so that it was a mild inconvenience to anyone trying to get anything from the drawer. I never put much forethought or effort into pranks. I was a lazy child.

There are a lot of pranks I've planned but never executed and a lot of pranks that I've dreamed up but have no idea to go about planning. Some day, I will pull all of my pranks. Or so I like to hope.