yay!

Happy things:

No more standardized tests (for a couple years, at least)!
Thanksgiving break!

I guess fall really is here

because not only did I have to rake leaves today, I just saw a flock of geese fly past my window.
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All your life is such a shame, shame, shame.
All your love is just a dream, dream, dream.
Well, I dreamt I saw you walking up a hillside in the snow
Casting shadows on the winter sky as [...]

birthday.

Hi everyone. This date on the calendar says that I am officially another year closer to my death year. Let’s just hope it’s somewhere off in the future.
Here are my goals for the year, taken off an AP Lit assignment:
1. Listen to a wider variety of music, especially concerning classic rock and opera
2. Read at least 1000 [...]

at the Hong Kong airport (my total travel time is just shy of 48 hours).

It’s refreshing to finally be in a place where my height is considered average, for once. Except for the stray Caucasian visitor, of course. But then I realized that everywhere I turned, the advertisements seemed to place me in New York City, not Hong Kong. They feature white models. Of course, I thought at first, [...]

do I look like a shopgirl?

Yesterday, I did some shopping. As I was leaving a store, leaving the store, two white women walked in. As I stepped over the threshold of the shop, one turned around and said, “Do you work here?” I turned around, propping the door open with my shoulder. “Nope,” I replied, and left.
Yeah, all the people [...]

what I need to do in the next two days:

Prepare for my final two final exams (US history and French)
Read Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
Return a fiction book, a French textbook, an English textbook (opened once), and a US history textbook
Finish a painting
Go to work
Pack for a trip to Chicago
Memorize two piano pieces
Sight read a Schubert string quartet; this also means I have to find [...]