The Last Weekend

Today, or, this weekend, I stayed over my grandmother's house. My parents went out to dinner with Gary and Mary like usual, and wanted me to spend time with my grandparents. My grandfather seems to be doing well after his spine operation thing. I ended up sitting on the back porch of their condo explaining Athiesm, and that no, I don't have a problem with gay people, Grammy. Papa, stop saying fag. MLIA.

Back Again, Are We?

Today, that delivery guy who has the annoying ding-dong knockknockknock habit came back. With just one iPad this time. For my Dad. I was in charge of setting it up, as he was at work when it showed up. I am just fifty bucks short of buying my own with accessories. He doesn't have any. But...His was free. Damn. MLIA.

Fleeting Moments

Today, I threw up. I've only thrown up three other times, other than when I was a baby, all from salmonella poisoning. I was feeling fine all morning. I sat down, got the standard weird throw-upy feeling in my mouth...And sneezed. I was fine for about a second after, then it started to get worse. I went to the bathroom, waited for what seemed like forever, and threw up once. Then I was done. I feel fine again. I haven't had any dangerous meat products or batter lately. MLIA.

One SuperCamper

Today, or two days ago, rather, I got back from SuperCamp at Brown University in Rhode Island. I attended the Senior Forum. I had never been to any of the camps before, and it was definately an interesting experience. Okay, so here it goes:

• Throughout the fourteen-hour day, you are either in a large room sitting on the floor (doubed the "Main room"), outside where there are "boundaries", or walking to go to the cafeteria (where you go three times a day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner).

• Walking into the main room is like "a punch in the face". There is loud music constantly playing and the only ones dancing half the time are the TLs. ("Team Leaders", and for 8 days I didn't know what TL stood for because no one directly tells you anything) There is forced clapping way too early in the morning and dammit you let *her* sit down why can't I sit back here with the nice cripple? She gets a nice chair and she's my new friend. Isn't one of the points of this to make new friends?

• They don't let you go inside to talk on your cellphone. You only get your cell for 30 minutes each day, and you have to stay outside with it. 5:00pm-5:30pm. Sometimes the TLs are late and you don't get your cellphone until 5:10pm, and they tell you to give them back at 5:25pm.

• So on day five of ten we get "Outdoor Adventure Day". I had to ask some lady working at the forest place (I don't even know) where the hell we were right now. She said Sea Conch, Massachusetts. As you can tell, they don't give out much information. I just new we were in Rhode Island when we started, then got on a bus and went to Massachusetts somewhere not traceable (no cellphones) in the woods. I was mad because that means i was closer to home and since it was day five of ten, I really wanted to go home). I tried to climb a tree. Fail. i couldn't, of course. (wearing jeans on a hot day, and not being tree-savy) and i cried coming down on the belay thing.
• We were in our groups doing team activities (go team N!) and what i heard from my roommate later on was that one guy who got told not to touch something in his team (part of some rope activity think-outside-the-box thing) got mad and ran away into the woods, and sat on a rock. When they found him they had to tackle him down and he said he wanted to kill everyone and his team. They said he was a "danger to the environment". He was actually one of the first people i talked to after lunch on the first day, and he seemed normal. Minus the bug eyes and that scar on his face. 0_o I think he is going into 9th grade. He was such a stalker the first three days before I found actual people to talk to.

• One girl left the second day who was on my team, she seemed very spoiled and her parents had some insurance so they got their money back. Another was put on bedrest because of pms and a sprained ankle (that cripple I was talking about earlier). The team leaders actually made fun of her when telling everyone to wear close-toed shoes in the main room. No seriously, about six other girls I knew (even my roommate and i got them on the same day) there all got their periods that week. The cripple and her roommate both too, eventually. Mine was actually a week late. It was like my body was saying "Hey, F you, I know you didn't wanna have this during camp and how unlikely it would happen so, ha ha here it is." That camp is like, girl-cursed, I swear.

• There were ants coming from my roommate's side of the dorm, so she got to go to a single room while I was stuck in the ant-infested one. She left the next day anyway. I was there for 3 more-ish days, with the ants. Because she is a quitter.

You get all emotional with your team, we are like family. I'm pretty sure everyone was crying at one point. They called me the innocent middle child. Hahaha. The team-building activities were great for the most part. They made you think outside the box. I needed that.

I met great people.

I broke a board in half with my hand.

People actually wrote "Rehab Center" on the white space on the SuperCamp T-shirts we got. Therapy/Kindergarten/Rehab/School/Jail Camp.

Unfortunately, I may go back next year.
Man, ill be in the leadership team (go team L!). They r boss. Plus you make lots of friends and the only way to see them again is to go back. It's not like I'll be visiting Saudi Arabia anytime soon.

Overall, thank you.
MLIA.

Dun Dun Dunnnn

Today, I got my hair chopped off. Two braids of over nine inches will be given to Locks of Love for the first time. MLIA.

Taking Matters Into My Own Hands

Today, I just sneezed and said "bless you" to myself. My mother laughed at me. MLIA.

About Last Night

Today, as well as last night, I was over my grandmother's house. My parents went out with friends to Newberryport, and they thought I should spend some time there. Before we left I had to feed the neighbor's dogs as they said they are on vacation. Strange though, because I can see two cars outside and two inside, yet they are not home. I get to my grandmother's around four. I tell her I am hungry as usual, and that I brought macaroni and cheese. She informs me that she also has frozen macaroni and cheese, whereas mine is in the box. She goes inside (we were on the porch) and I see her with the phone to call for pizza. Not that I have a real problem with that, it's just that didn't I just explain how I have macaroni and cheese? We go to pick it up and they made a mistake and made a large pepperoni instead of a small. Luckily, she only had to pay the price of a small after some confusion. As we sit still waiting, unsure of what we were waiting for exactly, My grandmother finds about 70 cents on the arm of the chair. Later, four of my cousins and my aunt and uncle show up, and it's total confusion! Apparently they only showed up to go to the bathroom before a lawn concert in Lowell, but were then informed that they forgot snacks back at their other grandmother's house. They then had to turn around and go back. They were sleeping over my grandmother's house as they live in Pembroke, not anywhere near Lowell. I went to go but the dogs to bed around eight, and smelling like my grandmother's cats did not help. When they came back after the concert sometime near ten, we were watching Pirate's of the Caribbean, Dead Man's Chest. When it came time for bed around eleven, I had to sleep on the couch downstairs with one cousin (my one follower, Olivia) on the floor and another on the couch that turns into a bed (Tristan, who, not even a year younger than me enjoys farting on his twelve year old sister). As one can imagine, we did not sleep for a long time, with pillows over our noses. I went to the mall and had to crawl under the changing room door to get in at Holister. Also went shopping for cheaper things for camp next week. Saw a boat on the highway with the name "Nuck N Futs". MLIA.