School dances and the pros of avoiding them.

There has been an insane amount of debating in my classes this year. It's growing on me.

Tonight, my school is having a dance. I will not be attending. Reasons I have used to defend this:

• Dances are:
• loud.
• trashy.
• ridiculous.
• I feel out of place because I am:
• socially awkward.
• wearing a decent amount of clothing.
• clean and sober.

 I'm way too classy for that.

And Alex was way too keen on trying to convince me to go. *awkward boy still hasn't given up after a year* My friends have begun to use his name as a syndrome for those who refuse to give up on something hopeless.

Anyway, I'm doing something about 1000x more productive than going to a school dance... hanging out with Sam, making brownies and watching a musical. YEAH.
Love,
-J-

Moments of this week.

 Amusing moments: 

1. Spending time in the IB hangout room (where IB kids retreat from the world because, to quote Tech Crew Alpha,"There are too many uncontrolled variables.") 

2. Watching Brittany causally write with her feet in History class.

Awesome moment: Going with Moriah to Value Village, a thrift place, to find a birthday present for Noah. We made Allan try on about a dozen dorky sweaters to figure out if they would fit Noah. For myself, I bought three fairly awesome sweaters and a bag for a total of $23. The kind of shopping I can afford at this point in my life.

 Awkward moment:  Learning just how far down choir dresses zip when Brittany asked me to unzip the one she was trying on. Way too far.

Color moment: I ate a cupcake on Friday at lunch that had hot pink icing. It stained my hands so much that even after washing them four times, they were still noticeably pink.

Educational moment:

In English class, a presentation was done on the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, and someone summed up the main idea as being,"Get laid while you're young and hot." And it totally being true. What morals English class and metaphysical poetry is teaching me.

Fashion moment: Socks and 'stocks. The shoe choice of champions. These have been gracing my feet far too often lately.

 Low moment: Scoring a 32% on a math test. Using my low moment for good moment: Making people feel better about their test marks by proclaiming my mark. 

Musical moments: 

1. Singing Hakuna Matata in French class with Raj.

2. Listening to CBC every evening to hear jazz. I'm hooked on jazz, guys.

Sketchy moment: After dark, with Vineyard youth, walking around King's Square (sketchiest place in the city) with pitchers of ice tea, asking random people if they wanted any. This went down:

 Me: "Sir, would you like a glass of iced tea?"

Guy: "Is there LSD in it?"

Me: "Uh, no."

Guy: "Then I don't want any." *rides away on bike*

That's the sort of crowd that hangs out there. And we were creeping even them out. 

Social moment: A bunch of use hung out with Noah last night for his kind of birthday party. We had a bonfire.

 Tasty moment: Went to the Fredericton farmer's market this morning and got a piece of baliey's cheesecake. It was fantastic. 

That list is in alphabetical order. OH. 

Love,

-J-

Reporting from Starbucks.

Ah, my favourite place to drain my wallet and bank account.

Yeah.

I totes baked 7 dozen brownie cupcakes yesterday.

They are mini and fracking adorable. All 7 dozen of them. 4 dozen went to the Vineyard youth bakesale, 1 and a half dozen to high school Sunday school, and the remaining 6 cupcakes to my family.

They are pretty tasty.

Man, send me to Starbucks and give me a webcam and stuff will go down. What on earth do people think of me? Of course I carry cupcakes with me whenever nessicary. And take pictures with my webcam of me eating them. Ahh, life.

Me thinks a cinnamon dolce latte soundeth good.*insert sound of wallet draining*
Love,
-J-
Currently reading: Jane Eyre (80% through... I can do this)

5 Fall Goals.

I found a tag on Smile Couture's blog about fall goals, which I thought might be fun to do.

1. Avoid procrastinating. 
I am so fracking practiced at procrastinating by this point in my life that I should be able to find a way to avoid it.

2. Knit mittens for my friends.
I promised them mittens last winter, but then slacked. Time for me to break out the yarn again and have my grandfather make jokes about my elderly hobbies.


3. Hipster Thrusdays. 
Today Moriah and I had hipster Thursday today, where we strive to dress like hipsters. Or, you know, an excuse to wear quirky pieces of clothing we happen to own (*cough*llama sweater*cough*) We actually don't dress much differently on Hipster Thursdays, but we will totally still do it for kicks.

4. Don't buy cosmetics. 
I'm trying to come to terms with not getting paychecks anymore and going on a cosmetic purchase ban is hopefully going to keep me from burning through my allowance too fast. After my sixth nail polish purchase of the summer, I decided that I needed to stop for a while. 


5. Pick up a bit of piano. 
I kind of want to learn a bit of piano. Because piano chords are actually way easier than I assumed.
Love,
-J-
Currently reading: Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan