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SCHOOL IS FINALLY DONE!! AFTER SOME LAST MINUTE FINISHING DETAILS I HANDED ALL MY FINAL WORK YESTERDAY AT 4! I was hoping for a sense of relief but I still don't believe it is over. Two weeks straight of just hardcore work and studying was too much!!

Today I decorated the tree while listening to the Elf (what a great movie) soundtrack and that was fun and put me in a christmasy mood. Now on to get my shopping done...

THESIS........COMPLETE

I never thought I would reach this moment. It seems like for the last four years it was always this crazy time in the future that I would have to do a thesis but now it is done. And it's not too bad I guess. I probably could have done better but I still think its good. I hope the grading committee agrees!! This is seriously probably the earliest I've ever finsihed any project. I mean it isn't actually due until 5pm tomorrow. I don't know what made me jump on and get it done so early but I'm glad I did. Time for bed now!!!!!!!!

Oh my last night at about midnight part of our fence blew off our second floor balcony. It hit both our cars in the driveway but not really much damage which was good. The bad part was that then me and my mom and dad were out on ladders and on the porch in the super wind trying to disconnect the part of the porch that was still connected so we could take it down. Dangerous and scary!!! And it wasn't like it was midnight and I still had two papers to write or anything and didn't have time for roof antics!

Laguna Beach also ended its season last night which was a pretty good commercial free episode (thanks to Pantene ProV) and I was hoping on a where are they now type thing at the end but instead they announced there will be another season of the show. I have mixed feelings about this. First of all Kristin who I hated will be the center of the new show because she was a junior and so will still be in highschool next year and everyoen else was seniors and went to college. Sure they said they will keep us updated on the seniors that went away but they will really be just small backstory. The people are gonna be even faker than these ones were this season. Like now everyoen at the school knows it is a reality show and the one girl who comes in to shake things up transfers. Hmm weird..do you think she transfered there to be on tv? What a coincidence the new girl because one of the main characters. Ugh! Just give me and update on my favorties from this season please!

Happy Birthday Beaster, May 22 be your best year ever!!!

We saw Finding Neverland yesterday and it was really good but so very really sad. Me and Jill were crying quite hysterically all the way through the credits when the lights went on and everyone stared and gave us disapproving looks. Obviously they didn't find it as sad but that is only because they are soulless and heartless. Anytime a mother with little boy dies it is extra very sad to me because I can't imagine how terrible it would be for your mom to ddie. I'm still basically that little kid and don't know what I would do without her.

thank goodness for mighty tacos late night hours that allow me to get my filll of delicious chicken fajitas and cherry pepsi at 12am

It was a fun night had by all, scatteg ories juniors is not just for kids by the way...

Ok , so i skipped all my classes on Friday to work on my thesis all day but instead watched six hours of Golden Girls and the Nanny and played tennis with Jill. Tennis was a lot of fun, we we're inspired to exercise by the movie Wimbledon. We are basically tennis pros and would have kept playing despite our bleeding overworked under in shape lungs except a group of about 8 year old skateboarders basically kicked us off the courts so they could skateboard into piles of leaves. By the by Mang Park already took down the nets for the winter so it is a little tough to play if you are a serious player which obviously me and Jill are. Then we tried to go to Mimes at the Alrbirght Knox but missed it because we were late and in the wrong part of the building. So Friday was not gonna happen for thesis work but I was determined to get up early and do it on Saturday....

Saturday came and went so fast in a blur of eating, church, going to see the INcredibles (quite good but not really a kids movie I don't think, I especially loved Edna), Spot and McMonkees and so that day got wasted faster than i could blink..but Sunday that would be the day....but

I had to get up at 930 to take my dad to the airport and then got lost on the way home. THen decided to rent The Experiment which I will prolly write about later, and then I wa really going to start my thesis at 3 but Mrs. Doubtfire was on and I can never..and I MEAN NEVER...pass up Mrs. Doubtfire so that was another two hours down the tubes....fell asleep on the couch....finally got up and started my thesis work at about 6 and worked really hard for about an hour and a half before stopping to wathc ridiculous tv I can't even remember and order Chines food...then my mom was home from Florida and we chatted and now the night is over...another weekend of no work getting done....well i did get five pages of my thesis done in the hour and a half that i worked but that was not nearly enough..........

...you will soon be able to see me under the bridge as the homeless college dropout....

Ok previously I may have mentioned my dislike/unconnection with the MTV reality show Laguna Beach but today it came on after Real World and I decided to watch it. AND IT WAS THEIR PROM EPISODE!!! Oh my how did it make me miss my high school days, everyone knows I loved highschool more than anything but lately I have grown up/not thought about it as much/moved on in some ways but then seeing that today just made me miss it and all my friends. In the end they all were in at a preprom party and then at prom and then all in the limo together taking pictures and talking about how things would change. Well now I definetely need to watch my slideshow again and remisisice.

You know what? I guess I am really lucky about the friends I had in highschool that they still mean so much to me and that I still keep in touch at least to some extent with all my best friends from highschool. Over break I think it is time for another dinner party....nothing too crazy this time..no two hour presentaion...no foods from all our favorite restaurants...no crazy decorations...(ok maybe all of that as I like to go overboard or at least plan on going overboard and fail miserably and am never ready on time). OK so maybe just a simple dinner for 9.....Jill, Teres, MK, Diana, Jesse, Maureen, Jen, Yosepha,...you'all better be there....we'll pick a date soon so everyone can come...over christmas break sometime!!!