I haven't posted in this journal in ... a year. I've read all of my friends entries though, and commented sometimes, but I seem to favour ignoring my own journal.

The school year was quite busy for me, which would explain my lack of posting. I seem to be the type of person who gets "too involved" in things, more things than they could handle. The 2nd semester was a bit of a disaster in terms of time management. Hah, it was hilarious, considering I never went to school for a full week for practically the whole semester because of badminton, track, and band. Hopefully, next year will be a bit more balanced, but I sort of doubt it.

I finally finished summer school. I decided to take the mandatory half-courses - Civics and Careers online over the summer, so I could have 4 options instead of 3. My schedule next year is rather hectic, because I'll have 3 enhanced subjects (science, english, history) and music first semester, thankfully with 3rd lunch. But second semester, I have first/fifth (depending on what day it is) lunch, and German, French, Math, and I fast-tracked Bio, but I might switch to Chem. Unfortunately, I live nowhere close to the school, and going to school late or going home early isn't possible, so my spare/lunch, will have to be a time for... power-napping?

I'm excited for next year already. I don't dread going to school much. There's quite a few things to look forwards to: friends, Prefects, the England trip, and x-country starts soon too. I'm starting to become unsure about my ability of playing french horn (I switched from flute), but I hope I can... somehow pull through music class. The England trip will be phenomenal, I believe we're spending most of our time at the Harrogate Festival, but we're going to spend a few days in London as well. I haven't been to any European country in close to a decade. My family seemed to have done most of their globe trotting before I was 5 (which I'm a little bitter over), so my memory is expectedly iffy.

Piano exam's in .... 17 days. I'm nowhere close to ready, but that's unsurprising. I still have, 3 pieces to memorize (though I'll probably only end up with 4 memorized pieces), and I'm a little worried now.

Gah... I can't concentrate on anything nowadays, nor sleep. And I really rather miss both of those lovely things. I've spent so much time procrastinating the past few weeks, mhmm... I never seem to be able to get it through my head that doing things earlier is just as good to doing things later? I work pretty well under deadlines, but it's cutting into my sleep time. :(

The whole moving to Michigan thing is still undecided. My mom got an extention to signing the offer, and my dad has an interview there next week. I've told a bunch of my friends, because I don't think I could handle it by myself anymore. And it's been better having some people I can talk to now. I love my friend Jo, I guess she's the only one who's really talked to me honestly about the whole situation so far. Everyone else said to me, well.. exactly what I said to myself - "I'm not moving", but I really appreciated it when she did point out a few pros to moving there.

I've had a great time with everyone the last couple of weeks. I went out with a couple of people for Charlie's birthday to Tucker's. Haha, it was great, I think we managed to scare a couple of the other people eating there. My friend Stefan said really loudly - "Before I die, I want to run through the streets naked in the dark", and a rather elderly woman at the table next to us informs him that it's illegal. Heh.

I also saw Borat, hah.. that's movie was hilarious. Rather crude, but hilarious nonetheless. I think that was probably the funniest movie I've seen this year, so far at least. I loved watching everyone elses reactions to the naked fight scenes.

I actually somehow found time to watch some of the Manchester United vs. Celtic match yesterday, while working on my french poster. It was disappointing, Man. U lost 0 - 1.

I think I'll try to post more often from now on, so my posts won't seem so random.. and.... irrelevant?

Men Smarter than Women, Prof. claims

Please tell me this is a joke. I don't know what to think of this other than the whole theory is ridiculous, from the idea itself, to their research (SATs?), or the fact that this article is just another way to tell girls that they should dumb themselves down (because it's more feminine?).

*The paper itself (.pdf)

I had registration for school yesterday.
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I have a orthodontist appointment in half an hour. Hopefully, my braces can come off soon. :) And I must remember to make icons for this journal.

Well.. I hope writing a proper(ish) introduction will be interesting to you as well to me. I haven't written a recent one for anything really and it'll be funny to see how I describe myself.

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Wow.. that was... not complete but a good start to me. :)

I guess this journal is the new actual journal (in which I'll actually try to write in) for pottermaniagurl (which'll now be used as a journal for icon communities/other communities... or maybe I'll just give it up entirely?). I don't know why I felt like I needed a second journal, but I did, and with nothing better to do right now (thank god for summer) and knowing I won't have time to start up a new one during the school year, right now is the perfect time for a new journal.

I'd like to get a layout with a header made by myself, but I'm really rather too lazy to figure it out, but I do like the theme of this S2 layout. Haha.. the title of my journal comes from a Death Cab for Cutie song - We Looked Like Giants... and I have no idea why it's the title but it's one of my favourite songs.

I'm sort of iffy on whether I'll friend all of the RL people I know who have LJs... lol.. (insusurro you're definitely excluded from that list)... it's not a huge problem right now because most of my friends are too caught up with their msn spaces and myspaces (DIE MYSPACE!), but I guess the whole point of having a seperate journal on LJ for me, was so I could write about things that I wouldn't be able to post on my msn space. It seems like lately, most of the stuff I want to post about, I can't post because I'm afraid that people who are involved will read it and realize who it's about.

I'll warn any future readers right now, I'm a "teen", hah... in one part of my mind I definitely believe that the world revolves around me and my problems are important. There'll definitely be times when I come off as bitchy, shallow, self-centered, spoiled, *insert typical suburban teenager stereotype here*. There'll definitely be extremely stupid hormone centered posts, and posts about the stress of school, and pseudo-philosophical, trying to make sense through hopeless metaphors or halfway high due to the lack of sleep posts. (and ... haha.. I almost forgot to mention my fangirly posts... there'll probably be some of those too)

As much as it sounds like I'm trying to turn you off from my journal, I would LOVE it if you friended me, it's always great to have friend's entries to read and comment on, and I don't really mind if you're not much of a commenter.

PS... watch out for a real introduction ... coming to you in 30 minutes if all goes well.