Laura: Age 8

My mom found my school journal from 3rd grade. XD It's hilarious! I keep trying to say that my favorite color is turquoise, and oh man, I cannot spell it for my life. I also can't spell "friend" or "with" but those I'm consistent--"freind" and "withe" (I had a lot of trouble with silent e's for much of my childhood. They really screwed me up--I thought that g's at the end of words were siltent just like them, so I didn't pronounce them. XD Which is one of the reasons I went to speech class--but that I was able to overcome as soon as the misunderstanding was cleared up. My other problem was pronouncing the "k" sound as a "t"--so my sister was Tatie. That took more doing, but speech classes were great fun, so I didn't mind.) I also spelled reviewing "reiwving" which is pretty crazy. And I would have pronounced it "reiwvin," remember. ;)

But hey, apparently I was good at math:

( excerpt )

The notebook (one of those black marble composition notebooks, you know) begins with what I did on my last summer vacation, and ends with what I plan to do on the next one. The two are, you know, pretty similar. Except that in October I stopped skipping every other line.

( excerpts )

This next one is my favorite. A little autobiography. I used several asterisks, which go to the previous page in the notebook, but I'll just put it in parentheses.

( Me )

Oh man, I just found a list I made on how to improve my behavior in class (i'm sure I was a model student! ;) with comments from my teacher. You won't be able to see, but this list in in beatiful script. The teacher's handwriting is beautiful too, by the way.

( early bullshitting )

side note--the whole thing is in pencil. Yet, I almost always cross out, and never erase. I just want to point out that this is a trend that has continued to this day. I'm not into erasing.

In case you hadn't noticed, I was very fond of reading at the time. In fact, there's an entry dedicated to it:

( my favorite subject )

OK, I know there's a lot of these, but you don't have to read them all--obviously I find them hilarious because they're me, and I want them copied here, but, you know. I understand ;)

This one, though, is particularly funny. And I got a check + on the assignment!

( thanksgiving )

And now for the darker side of my third grade experience. The teasing, the anger, the drama!!

( scarring, really )

Hopefully those two entries will give insight into what is possibly the most revealing entry in the book. Actually, I'm sort of serious about that. I had a really, really terrible temper when I was little, and now I really try to keep it tightly reined in, but it's hard.

( temper )

Anyway. That's enough of that. XD Sorry for dragging you along on that. But, you know, I found it highly entertaining. Until it got bittersweet at the end, there. Let's see if I wildly messed up my html.

Day of Accomplishment!

so, in addition to finding that notebook, I had a very productive day. Sort of.

Mom and I played some pictionary--or rather Charadionary, which is what I call it when mom and I play by ourselves. We each take a Picture This card, and then just take turns drawing a side of the card. But we use the charades hand gestures for words and syllables and "sounds like." And when Katie isn't around, mom and I tend to be even looser with the rules, because we aren't the greatest guessers and it's hard with just two people, cos when you're the only one guessing there isn't anyone else's guess to sort of work off of. So, uh, there will be occasional verbal hints. At any rate, it was much fun.

Then we made cookies! I made chocolate chip cookies almost all by myself. I did spill some water in the cookies, though. I actually haven't had one yet, but I did eat considerable amounts of dough and it was very good!

And then I went on a job search! I used Smith's job searching website. I found a couple of good prospects, so hopefully I won't be at the DOB again. I think I've learned all I can, and I need other job experience. It's just so intimidating to start a new job. And everyone there is so nice. So if my other applications don't pan out, I have something to fall back on, which is nice.

Mom and I also got up to some good times last night. After watching some Monty Python, Mom remembered a craft that someone at Bethpage (volunteer job) taught her. This involves printing out a picture of Michelangelo's David, cutting out around the crotch, and gluing it over a light switch, so that the switch takes the place of David's penis. (I felt like I should have used a silly word for penis there, like ding-dong or something. It just seemed right. But I resisted!) XD After several false tries with different sizes, we achieved it! And it looks pretty hilarious. Even better is that we were sitting in the room with the modified switch with Dad and he completely failed to notice. Much giggling ensued.

And, as if all that weren't enough, last night I found a yahoo group for my favorite bondage/fetish artist and it had lots of pictures i hadn't seen before!

Anyway, it would be super-awesome if I could get that job. ::bites lip:: I hope to get the application in tomorrow.

And then pack and work on my study abroad application. Woo. Still. A full and pleasant day. :) Mom was watching "You Bet Your Life" (Katie's Christmas present to her) while I was on the computer in the room, and I saw the guy who played Tarzan on it! He's a big guy. Very adorable, too!

Jeeez, it's cold in here. So cold! My hands are freezing.