Jun212009
Sunday /8pm
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My graduation ceremony was last Friday.

Red white blue

Red, white, blue, and green. We're patriotic because we have to be - school colors and a telephone number that corresponds with the year 1772. Whenever I visited relatives and they asked me what high school I went to and I would tell them "American" they would nod and ask again, "Yes, but what high school?"

So that ended 13 years of public schooling, 3 in Canada and 10 in California. I can’t believe it’s been that long already.

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Me with my little brother. It's so nice to have the balloons and flowers still in my room.

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This was my favorite picture of the day.

A lot of the pictures came out blurry since I handed my dSLR to my family on Manual mode without auto focus. Oops.

Jun162009
Tuesday /10am
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I’m officially done with high school now, just short one piece of paper. I checked out an hour ago, came home and ate a whole box of hamburger helper (lasagna). That was around 8:30am. Wow.

It’s insane that four years of high school is just about over. The graduation ceremony is Friday and honest to god, I hope it doesn’t rain. It’s been cold and cloudy all week and just like 8th grade “promotion” weather, in which all our nice clothes got dripped on and stained.

But again, wow. 12 years of public education coming to a somewhat anticlimactic end. I revel in this.

Oh, when Heath Ledger was young (and alive).

Oh, when Heath Ledger was young (and alive). On a different note, the checklist for today: check out forms, calc grade - C+, lit&film grade - B+, order transcripts. Done, done, done, and done.

Sunday I attended the Ariel’s party. Mostly we watched the 1999 10 Things I Hate About You (best teen chick-flick/romantic comedy/Shakespeare remake ever) and sat around the jump house divulging secrets and then later huddled around lantern night reminiscing about grade school crushes and drama.

At some point A. dug out her journals from elementary school (we didn’t go to the same one) and read aloud these super detailed but nevertheless hilarious–and somewhat eloquent for the age–entries. It made we wonder about my own diary-keeping.

I’ve kept a sporadic diary on paper from around third grade and still have all of them. The last time I wrote in any was last year, December of 2008. Rather, I’ve been blogging a lot, but I think there’s something for intimate about pen and paper that you don’t throw out into a sea of everybody.

I do have an empty book that I planned to use for college and I’m wondering if its almost time to break it out in addition to this blog. It’s narcissistic, but also something fascinating and almost regenerating about chronically the details of your life. In a blog, something inevitably holds you back–the concern of specific names, privacy, publicity, truth, opinions, inaccuracy…

But I do, and multiple ones. So it’s probably no surprise that my journal, agendas, notebooks, diaries, tumblr, livejournal, wordpress, facebook, and the margins of my AP tests. They’re all sporadic too.

So if i ever become famous for whatever reason, I suppose it wouldn’t be as hard to piece a puzzle together; just in getting all the pieces together. But I don’t think anyone would really care except future me and maybe any children I might have.

Jun132009
Saturday /11pm
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Have been insanely busy the last few weeks of school, and even though that’s pretty much wrapped up now, I’m still worried to death about my very low C and dropping grade in Calculus.

Honestly, this past month has taught me a lot. Mostly a crash-course in how to edit videos with Adobe Premiere Pro whereas I’d always turned around and fled the last time or so I was faced with the display. That’s two videos in as many weeks and not enough sleep to get 4hr./night between them.

By Friday, however, I can truly say that I survived high school. In the meantime, here’s the Final–yes, a school final–that I turned in with my group of 6 for senior year AP English. And to my surprise, we got a very nice grade out of it. There are two parts; they total to approximately 40 min. of total watching. Yeah, I know.

Topics covered are as follows, divided by parts.

[Part I] features
- How to Procrastinate
- How to Get to School on Time
- How to Make Friends
- How to Stalk Your Crush
- How to Ask a Girl to Prom
- How to Turn Down a Guy in Public

[Part II] contains:
- How to Have a Bromance (w/o being Brokeback Mountain)
- How to Cheat
- How to Kiss Up to Teachers
- How to Survive Puberty
- How to Ditch School
- How to Time Write Like a Pro