Seriously. Look around various friends' diaries. Seems like everyone is complaining about their romantic situation. Now, I'm not begruding them that right in any way. I remember what it's like to be a bitter single (and I still consider myself honorarily single since Rebecca and I can't actually go out for three more days. And no, it is not obsessive to count down how many days until my first date! God, I sound like a loser...18 years old and I'm going on my first date, lol) Go right on ahead and mope, everyone. Just please, please, please shoot me if I ever spend whole diary entries going on and on about how perfect someone is and how I miss her. Or coming up with creative spellings for their names (not naming any names, of course ;-).

Anyway.

Yesterday was not a fun day. I had no where to go, nothing to do, no one to talk to ~sigh~ And nothing to eat. Mom hasn't gone grocery shopping yet, so I'm getting really low on food. You can only eat so many peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in one week. I went frickin' stir crazy, until I finally got to go out and watch my parents' play at their church.

And I thought The Sound of Music was bad. That was Broadway theatre compared to this church play. The highlight of their show? Seeing how realistic the black eye I gave a kid was. I am extremely proud of that make-up break through. I want to do a show where someone needs a black eye just so i can do that makeup again. And it's always fun to make 12 year old boys wear make up, lol. Though this kid didn't mind, since he was getting a black eye out of the deal, too (his idea, actually. And it was brilliant).

Today was a blah day. April and I did more spork work in art. We're really far behind, since the project is due next Monday and we have...five sporks finished. We have something like 16 to do. And that doesn't include actually building the "set" for this thing (I'm sorry, I can't come up with non-theatre terms). I think we may be putting some out-of-school time on this thing.

Seminar was spent with Jake, doing a bit of work on forensics, and then talking the rest of the time. I need to teach him how to be a lesbian, lol. Which we both admit will be quite a trick since he's basically the complete opposite of a lesbian. At the moment the only guidelines anyone has been able to come up with is like girls (his reaction? "ew") and be violent. Which resulted in the invention of the lesbian judo chop. I kid you not.

Then we talked a bit about weekend plans. So far the only definite plan is on Friday Chris and Brad are gonna be at the mall at 2:30 so we need to be there by then. Rebecca and I are looking at going in around 11, with everyone else following around noon or one. At least, I think that's what was decided at lunch. We get sidetracked way too quickly. And on Saturday "some of us" will be going over to Jake's after the forensics meet. I don't know who exactly this entails, but Jake, of course, is hoping that Chris will get to come, and we're gonna see if we can get some D&D role playing set up.

~giggles~ Here's the set up for that bit of conversation. Right after saying that Chris will (hopefully) be coming, Jake asks if I'd be interested in role playing. I'm like "Um...what?" (well, I didn't know if he meant live RPing or on-line or what the hell he was talking about. Role playing has a lot of different possibilities). Jake immediately assums my mind is in the gutter and says "Not, in a sexual way. I know how much you like Chris...." ('Cause he and I are making out all the time and getting each other sick ;-)

Okay. Maybe you had to be there for it to really be funny.

Humanities was spent discussing parts of Brave New World that I haven't read. And at HL, we had to book talk the dregs of the Asian fiction (sixth class of the day. There was nothing left. I'd read two of the books, and Mrs. Dobrez staked her claim to Shadow Spinner, leaving me with Shabanu, to whom I kept referring to as Shaherazad because that's who Shadow Spinner is about :-Þ) And then Mrs. McCloud wasn't there today, so there was some sub checking out books, and she was incredibly slow...gah. I just wanted to take over and leave her to her book shelving.

Though I did get to read some fun articles in Mrs. Dobrez's YALSA magazine. One written by a girl who's spoken at several YALSA conferences (like when I go to BBYA), another by a woman about the perils of having teens speak at conferences, connecting all the books on last year's BBYA list to each other. I was looking forward to an interesting connection to Empress, but unfortunately is was simply the fact that both Empress and Rainbow Boys have characters who think they're gay. Rainbow Boys was connected to Everytime a Rainbow Dies and then Empress was connected to some other book about friends who meet at summer camp. How boring.

And then there were a few articles about LGBT lit. One about the history of LGBT "children's" lit (how insulting. The only books in that article that I'd consider children's lit are things like Heather Has Two Mommies. But it was referencing Annie on my Mind! That's definitely not a child's book). The other was about LGBT characters emerging in contemporary youth literature. And I need to go look up a book that was referenced in that article. Gravel Queen. I forget the author, but seeing as it was written by a woman, I'm hoping it's another book about a young lesbian. Can never have enough of those ;-)

And then I need to get to work on the bibliography for the GSA.

At some point on Friday the GSA board members are gonna get together and discuss what our next topic meeting is. It's supposed to be the Day of Silence, but then it'll be a month between the meeting and the day. So Jake and I think maybe the next topic should be coming out. But that is up for debate. It's just the suggestion we came up with.

He also has some awesome ideas for advertising (once we're allowed to put stuff up in the halls). Like putting up fliers, and behind them have a sign like "You've Just Committed a Hate Crime" that will only be revealed if someone rips down our flier. It's so cool!

Though I'm not sure if it's as cool as frozen toast. Apparently I'm the only person on the planet who hasn't heard of this, but I don't care. It's frozen-freakin'-toast! According to April you can get it at Meijers. I need to go there or to Sam's and find some of this stuff. 'Cause it's *frozen toast*.

~hugs~ to Rick for finishing his first high school play. Even if he did go around saying the title of the Scottish play backstage. Ya' dork ;-)

Virgin Mary in a leather mini-skirt.

--Angela

At 5:16, I added...

About Disco: It came from the gay mount olympus and drifted down into the heterosexual culture. --The actor who played the computer nerd's boss in 'Independence Day' (hey, at least I got the name of the movie!)

Books we need to look out for:

Gravel Queen by Tea Benduhn
Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters
Kissing Kate by Lauren Myracle

And Behind the Movie: Chicago is on VH1, Wednesday night at 10. Or maybe 8. I really should start paying more attention to TV.

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