Junior Prom

1. Dressed up for prom,
2. Prom dress, 1952,
3. Prom vs. Chucks - Day 23 of 365,
4. dead undead prom queen 01

Hurrah.

Well, several things crossed off my list last week.

First - finally did something that I have needed to do for a while. I participated in something. It sounds silly, but I'm always thinking of ideas and diving headfirst into them. I realize, usually halfway into one of my 'projects', that I'm not really as interested and dedicated as I thought I was - like in early summer when you want to swim and enjoy summer so bad, but school still have a few more weeks, and there's homework to be done, and the pool water's not quite warm enough yet anyway, so you quite trying to encourage summer and just wait. Everything is like that for me.
But the One Day Without Shoes event really paid off. I feel good about myself. I wish I could have gone the entire day - driving, testing, etc, but I didn't think my parental units would quite go for that....

Two - speaking of testing, I took the accuplacer on thursday and then the act on saturday. the accuplacer is easy and the act is impossible.

Three - today all i've been thinking about is reading. Books, books, books. So i am starting my to read list. I've been down to the nub for a while now, and it's time to start again....

ETA

I've been doing a lot of scene scheming in my head lately. I wrote for an hour and a half last night. Sometimes, I have a good idea of where I'm going. Sometimes, I just want an emotion to come across. Sometimes, I just want to explore secret room.
But it only comes in little bits. I think maybe that if I could possibly link all my little ideas together, especially my 'underground' idea that I keep tinkering with, that maybe I could finally have 80% of a novel written.
That won't happen. And even if I probably won't ever write a book, I will still keep writing. If I do write a book, it will be a sort of a memoir for myself.

Six total people have found their way into taking thrusday's challenge. As I walked around today, I tried to watch out where I was putting my feet. I'll be doing much more of that on thursday. The second I get careless, it'll be something gross. I'm going to bring a pair of shoes just in case, but I am challenging myself to keep them off until I get home. I'm making my time every second I am out of out property lines. I go around barefoot so much, it doesn't count really for me to do the thing at home. For your information, I'm barefoot now.

We're watching 'Gone With The Wind' in production, since we have nothing else to prepare for really, except night of one acts. That'll be easy, and not until the week before.

I think i'll sign off and continue writing.

I think I might go to prom with that guy :)

I think I might go to prom. Wow.

why not?

since you're gonna (i will) be shoeless on thrusday, why not donate a pair while your at it? everyone seems to be in a nice donate mood recently. maybe it's just finally time for world peace. (crosses fingers) look here if you're in south carolina!

[carrot speak.]

by the way, this blog is great anyway, so follow it, fool!

The Note...

To my friends on facebook:

One Day Without Shoes!

onedaywithoutshoes.com
odws event page on facebook
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Our TOMS club at school is huge. It seems like every other person has a pair to me. And I think it's justifiable that one of the 'cool teachers' runs it. So can you go a day without your favorite pair? The ones that you probably seem to look at a lot, and wear even more, if you're like me.

Thinking of the horrors of stepping on gum?
Or going to the bathroom barefoot?
Or getting stepped on?
Or ridding the bus without shoes?

O.o

I thought about that, too.
But then, I thought through it some more.
This is what I thought:

Who cares? There are other human beings, some other skinny, curious, imaginative, 18 year old girls out there that don't have any shoes. There might be a girl our there, just like me. Except she doesn't have any shoes. Oh, I'm beginning to sound like a commercial... Moving on....

AND there are so many places our feet could be, that are much worse. I know that leaving your shoes at home (or leaving them in your backpack) doesn't help anyone. It won't put any African kid in a pair of shoes, it won't give North Koreans food. It will probably make a lot of people think that you're weird.

But it WILL help you know what it's like to not have shoes. At least after this event, you can return to school with proper footwear. People all across the world don't get that. So, it's the human thing, the human element, that I think is the point.

Not only awareness of how freakin' LUCKY we are just to have our own dwelling, clothing in our rooms, some food in a kitchen that's a couple steps away. I think often, we are all so wrapped up in our country's government problems, each other's problems, and ourselves, that we don't often realize the struggles unseen in another country. [Even as I think, I'm amending, adding that there is plenty of poverty right here in the good ol' usa, not just in other countries. It has a terrible way of remaining unseen usually; When found it tends to show only the dull, pitiful bits of a homeless man and his dog - and I have a uhm, weakness for aminals, as many of you know.]

What's the chance that I could have been born somewhere else, I wonder.

Anywho, if you've read all that, thanks :) I think this really should have gone in my blog, but I wanted to tag people and have people go along. Don choo leave me all aloney on thursday, mkay?

i've got a piece of art

thats very much inspired by one of my favorite blogs, dottie angel. i'm excited to take pictures and show it off! i'll have to buy - or make - a frame soon to put it in. maybe i'll even sell it.