Hi!

Lol, so I've been srsly really trying to blog almost everyday for the last few days and keep getting so distracted by homework/sexy South Park marathons/catching up with the anime scene that I never get around to it.  BUT OHOHOHO, LOOK AT ME NOW.  Blogging masta is me!

I've been secretly very proud of myself because this is the first year that I'm observing Spirit Week at school.  I didn't take any pictures, but I know Chau has a million, lulz.  TBH, I really think that seniors SHOULD win spirit point competitions every year, in spirit of it being their last year (lol @ not-so-subtle pun), so I've never really done Spirit Week in previous years.  But I'm a senior now, so ohohohoho!  ohohohohohooooo
now i just need to fix my professor chaos costume and i'm set
>:D

What I'm secretly jealous of is how Mt. Pleasant (the high school i would've attended if i never moved away from san jose!) has four quads for each of the classes, so every holiday season the different classes have competitions decorating the quads, and the seniors always win.  lul

My vision for a Christmas decorating contest:

LOL, IT'S AN X-A TREE!  GET IT?!???!  Christmas : x-mas : : Christa : x-a?!?!?
I'M SO CLEVAR
On second thought, it's probably good we don't have that competition here.  >_>.

ENGLISH WAS SO EMBARRASSING TODAY.  I bought a Homecoming Candy-gram for Phuc, which was delivered to him in AP Lit, a class that we both share.  So Mr. Kjargaard read my note on the gram to him aloud  in front of the class!
"To my Handome McFine..."
*ALL CLASSMATES GIGGLEH*
>___________>

Also, Mr. Kjargaard has been going through this U2 phase, where he keeps playing songs from the U218 Singles album, which has been making my afternoons.  Whenever he talks about how wonderful Bono's voice is, in my head I'm going, "Amen, brotha!"

On that note, I've been having reason to be emo for the last month, and in spirit of Mr. Kjargaard's U2 love, I listened to the UK single version of "Walk On" on Monday during lunch on my iPod, after months of forgetting that song's therapeutic effect on me, and I felt so empowered and joyous that I started tearing up.  It was the first time during lunch that I forgot how I once thought senior year was going to be absolutely terrible.  Sing it, Bono!

And uh oh, today was the first day I was called to Reckless rehearsals!

I did pretty coo' (what a relief!!@@), but I learned today that my Reckless monologue is very stressful on my throat, so I need a lot of water afterward. >_>.  There's this one part where I start belting the screams like an angry wrestler, which personally tickles me pink, but my throat gets dry and scratchy afterward.  Good thing it's only one part of the entire play!

And as much as I LOOOOVE being backstage (especially stage manager, it's made me sooo much better at talking with people since i had to tell people what to do for that job), I must admit that being onstage feels like I've gotten some sort of promotion.  >_>.  Granted, it's only like one monologue SOMEWHERE in the second half of the play, but what delights me is that in the script, I AM Scene 11.  Like, my monologue has its own scene, and no one else speaks in that entire scene but me, so I secretly feel quite special.  I hope that makes sense.  <_<.

For everyone interested in attending the play, here are the performance nights!    Look at me be too lazy to write out the dates.  LOOK!

I'm yet to find out the prices.  UH OHHH.  Also, it catches me off-guard that the matinee is going to be on a Wednesday this year, but what I do know is that I really hope I'm one of the attendees of the "The Color Purple" field trip.  >_>  (join drama club and not go to kickass field trips?  i think not!)

Sidenote: Amber is facking awesome because she now calls me Dr. Christa.  LULZ.

Sometimes, I really, truly believe that wishes and prayers come true, and that the universe really does balance itself by bringing the good with the bad, and that karma really does work, and I'm really crossing my fingers and knocking on wood that everything's going to come together somehow.  Meanwhile, I'm extremely good at spilling my heart and guts to minor acquaintances, yet when it comes to people I care about, my hands start shaking and my heart starts pounding in my ears, and I've actually haven't had that feeling in a long time with anyone besides Phuc.  And in the midst of worrying mixed with awkward nervousness and that old fiddling-with-my-shirt thing I haven't done in a while, I'm still very happy, because I've forgotten how enriching it is to want to be there for someone, and how heartwarming it is when someone wants to be there for you.

and how when i get so shy i really wanna totally flake out and start hidin again, there's hella people makin me follow through
lul

By the way, someone make me more photogenic!  nyaaaaar  D:<

i won't hesitate no more, no more

Bye for now!

Hullo.

I swear, I'm afraid of touching ANYTHING in college.  EVERYTHING'S GONNA HAVE ALL SORTS OF HERPES.  D:  God, old people are gross.  Or at least according to these recent(ish, i'm usually behind in everything movie-wise) college movies, everyone will be extremely sexually active, so I shall have to mace everyone that comes near me in order to avoid massive herpes.  >_>.  As the great philosopher Chef once said, "There's a time for everything, and that's called college!"  Adulthood will be the grossest period of my life ever, ever.  D:

Friday has become my catch-up-on-sleeping-day, where I come home from school on Friday and have epic naps to compensate for how I keep having 4-5 or so hours of sleep on school nights.  I tried to take a half-hour nap yesterday, and ended up constantly nodding off in my chair for an hour afterward because the nap made me so drowsy and wanting more!  >_<  So I've now learned that I can't nap on school nights cos of that. >_>.

And this is really lame, but I'm soooo excited that Zach Braff is now my Myspace friend. OMGILOVEHIM.  >____>  I got the notice that he approved my friend request and I flipped out.  It's probably because of my INSANE Scrubs marathon where I went through the entire series that's been released so far, and that he listens to the best music ever.  On that note: nowadays, I don't know what possessed me, but I used to think Hugh Grant was the sexiest man alive, possibly because I watched Notting Hill ten billion times (LOVETHATMOVIE).  It's like the time that I watched Digimon: The Movie over and over and over again while I was working on my eighth grade social studies project.  I suddenly wanted Tai to be my super best friend.

omg i don't wanna write college app essays

Self-reminder: Join National Honors Society this year!  D:<

watch the rain play on the ocean top

Bye for now~

Lol I'm not just ridiculously vulgar, it's from "Here Comes Dr. Tran"! 

But yea, hi.

So today was kinda lulz.  I went to the Reckless auditions as planned, and Miz Townsend pointed at me in the audience and said, "Are you trying out?" since I'm usually only backstage.  So my plan to decide whether or not I'd try to attempt getting a role onstage over several hours came down to a "UHH... IUNO... UH" -- "Yes, or no?!" -- "... ... UH... YES!"   >_>. 

So yea, I read four times today (wow) and I read a monologue for one of the Doctor characters (there's like.. six doctors) as the final performance of the day, for which I had a SHOCKINGLY pleasant roar of applause, with everyone congratulating me afterwards (aww, i got that warm feeling in my tummy), and ended up getting that Doctor character in the play!  :OOOO  So if you go to the fall play, you'll ACTUALLY see me on stage for the first time in a fall play (i've been on stage for a musical and for lenaea, so this completes the collection!), instead of wearing headphones and holding a clipboard in the corner.  Lol.  xD

Phuc, as I totally expected, got the role for the lead male.  xD  That's my boyfriend, OOHHH!

But you know what this means, right?
I AM NOW DR. CHRISTA!

OHOHOHOHOHOHO.

The absolutely most embarrassing thing happened in AP Lit today when we were reciting pick-up lines we've heard to segue into a poem that we were going to read, and Phuc's epic line was: "If we were squirrels, would you let me bust a nut in your hole?"  INSTANTLY, THE WHOLE CLASS LOOKS AT ME.  LOL.  WHYYYY.  *got so red*  Phuc's so preposterous!
Brittney (slap me if i spelled that wrong): "CHRISTA IS THAT HOW HE PICKED YOU UP?"
LUL
>_>

But yes, yey.

YAY I GOT A PART IN THE PLAY YAY

slapping you!  <- the only line from my monologue today that I remember.  >_>.

Bye for now!

Self-memo: I should check out Eagle Eye when the movie comes out.  The preview looks fun.
Self-memo II: I apparently MUST get to reading the Twilight series.

I was driving to school this morning for the Key Club meeting (gosh i hope i succeed in my goal of being active in that club) and the clouds and the sun mingled together so gorgeously that I sincerely felt like today was going to be a good day.  Which turned out nice and true!   

I thought Physiology class was absurdly and uncharacteristically fun today cos I KICKED ASS AT
BINGO AND JEOPARDY.  I feel a little bad because I don't really need
the extra credit that I earned (>_>;;;) but my competitive side possessed me and that fact sort of went over my head.  And damn, I must admit
that it's quite a rejuvenating feeling to pwn it up.  Now I know why Phuc enjoys it so. 

Then, in AP Literature, Mr. Kjargaard told me that I got the first "8" grade on an essay this year in any of his AP 12 classes.   *was secretly a proud moment for me since i never got an 8 in williams' class*  Equally secretly, I (really) like it whenever I make "funnies" in class -- when I experience the extremely rare "class clown" moment, where I say something and the people around me giggle -- and that totally happened for an instant in AP Lit while I was reading my essay to the class, and I cheered with Phuc about it after school.  >__________________>;.  (yey for funnies)

Today was also the first time that I got to spend a really big amount of quality time (lol @ "really big"; AP vocab, ja?) with Phuc since the school year started, as we've both been swamped with homework and extracurriculars.   He made me noodles with TWO eggs, which was way yummy, and we had some nice chatty time about our up-coming three year anniversary next month!  homg it's so soon!  This is going to be the last anniversary we spend as high school sweethearts in high school! (did that make sense? >.>)
yey

Tomorrow, I'm going to be going to the auditions for MTHS's fall play (as is by now the annual tradition) except I'm unsure if I want to actually try out for.. a.. role.. like.. on-stage. >_>.  Rather than just stopping by to fill out my backstage application and watch Phuc audition, then sporting the role of backstage supporter for my sixth play of high school.  I mean, I've been on-stage before: I've been in two theater classes, I've had a Lenaea Festival monologue, and I've played very small roles in two plays; my role in The Wiz was a curious one because I totally got that Emerald City Person role without trying out (someone just flaked in attendance and i filled in, lmao). 

But like... yeah. 

acting on stage is weird for me since i'm so unused to it
>.>

Today's lesson: Friendship makes the night air smell better.

i'm underlined already in envy green and pencil red

Bye for now!

Flash is hellsa fun.

I might possibly be running out of episodes of South Park to watch.  I've been rewatching all the seasons of South Park all day long for the last few weeks, ever since I finished watching Scrubs the week before school started.  >_>.  anyone got a show to recommend i watch online as i do hw

I swear, FOX needs more creative titles for their shows.  "Hole in the Wall" is just TOO MUCH SUCK TO CONTAIN.  Not that they're not necessarily low quality shows, but "So You Think You Can Dance" and "Don't Forget the Lyrics!" could also both afford to have catchier titles.  I wholeheartedly embrace the SYTYCD series now, but I must admit that when the series first came out, I was absolutely horrified by that title.  Gosh.

AND DOES ANYONE ELSE HATE MAC IN THE MACINTOSH COMMERCIALS BESIDES ME AND PHUC?  The commercials where Mac is this hip young adult in his twenties and PC is a middle-aged nerdy-looking man?  Cos I absolutely adore how PC tries so hard to be cool in those commercials, and I find Mac to be terribly patronizing towards PC.  What a butthole!  I love PC!  D:

I'm already pretty excited to join Key Club after how amazingly fulfilled I felt after my very first volunteer experience over the summer.  Granted, I sort of wish I got more out of the WEAVE event than cups of water, but meeting and spending time with whatsherface and whatshisface was pretty fun (lol maybe i should've asked for their names, but they were nice people).  I'm also looking forward to going to the Drama Club meeting this week after HORRIBLY flaking on Russell after promising that I'd come to the Drama Club's first meeting of the year. D:

Goodness.  Ever since I talked to Chau in our Creative Writing class a few days ago about how Joeve has been planning a road trip with our entire close circle of friends since middle school, I've really been nostalgic about all my old friends in San Jose.  Nowadays, I'm a little bit in disbelief that I managed to make as good friends as I did with Joeve, Daniel, Lisa, Ashley, and Chocolate -- those heartwarming-and-heartwrenching-at-the-same-time, we're-going-to-be-friends-forever-and-ever-you-promise?-okay-pinky-swear kind of friends.

Yeah.  I really miss them sometimes.

Today's Christa trivia: I totally bought new Disney stamps yesterday at the Post Office.  >_>  I LOVE THEM.

i want nothing that you're not

Bye for now!

Hi.

I was starting to get paranoid that I was getting a reputation for going to the library everyday, asking the lady there for book covers, attempting to cover my AP Statistics book, then ripping the cover horribly, hiding the torn cover in my backpack, giving the lady back her tape, then running away.

Except today, I succeeded!
VICTORIOUS!

On another note, I asked Mrs. Poe, Ms. Sarmiento (gosh she breaks my heart sometimes), and Ms. Tran for recommendation letters this week for a scholarship, and then realized from Phuc that I actually was not that interested in most of the partner colleges.  >_>.  I was captured by the allure of Stanford, MIT, Yale, and Princeton being on the list since they are quite the fancy schools, and perhaps even CalTech, but the other schools are a tad unappealing.  but lol i already gave all my teachers the recommendation forms and shat, so lul i guess i'm gonna follow through

I actually have stuff to do afterschool nowadays, now that I'm gonna be on the Book Crew, in Key Club, and in Drama Club. :O  It's the same hang-out-with-phuc thing, lol, except now we shall mingle productively.  I AM SO OLD IN THE BOOK CREW, IT'S RIDICULOUS.  I'm gonna be working with all these middle schoolers that quite possibly have more experience than me, stop my heart.  I'm so thankful that I dragged Phuc into the Book Crew, or else I'd be the only senior there. >_>.  We're currently making these pamphlet things for all the middle school English classes (god i totally forgot that MTHS is right next to a middle school when i signed up for this shizz), where we have to write the date and place of the book fair, and I secretly feel terribly bad because the penmanship on the current completed pamphlets are barely legible, while I have printed out snazzy custom labels and stuck them on the pamphlets.  >_>  i shy about dem now

I've also been obsessing over finding this guy named Frank Vang at my school; I was in the counselor's office one day and saw his transcripts on a table, and his picture looked JUST LIKE PHUC.  Except he was grainy, upside down, and black and white.

So somewhere out there, there is someone that looks totally like Phuc upside-down.
:O

Today's Christa fact: i find people scary >_>

let's forget we're running out of time

Bye for now!

Wee.

Today, I went to the installation of Father Vicente as pastor of St. Paul's Catholic Church, after Fr. Rey left a month or so ago.  It was INSANELY full, where all the seats were occupied (and it's a pretty big church, with like four sets of pews), and there were two layers of people standing against the walls.  So when we broke out in song for the hymns, I broke out in laughter because ALL those people singing made it so that people did not notice that they were not singing in tune with the actual song on the speakers, and the way that all the voices of the church echoed off the walls of the church made me feel like I was at the U2 concert at San Jose again.  After the mass, there was a reception at the Parish Hall where I got a big plateful of food, and therefore I was very very happy. 

I finally had the heart to tear apart my American Eagle paper bag to form a book cover for my Physiology book, then I realized that I really suck at wrapping books.  So don't laugh when you see me at school and there's this horrific mass of book thing in my hand that has this weird layer of disfigured paper and tape on it. >_>.

I started drafting a college application essay and looking up essay tips, and exploded a little inside.
aaa
I have like.. my introduction done so far.
aaa

GOD, I WANNA GO SHOPPING TOMORROW FOR LABOR DAY BUT I ONLY HAVE A DOLLAR.  I want to get a job but my parents absolutely refuse to let me work during the school year, so I'm going to have to wait until the summer.  D:

At least I'm hoping to be active in a lot of clubs this year, at least Drama Club (yea, i was actually never in the club, but i worked in almost all the plays) and Key Club, and possibly Friday Night Live and, tug-my-nostalgic-heart, the Anime Club (lol i shood start watching more anime besides yugioh first tho).  And I guess Creative Mustangs if that's not still dead.  I want to work on the book fair this year but I realize I really don't want to miss any classes.  ah spose i can work before and after skoo'

SO BACK TO HOMEWORK
KEKEKEKKE

bye for now