"Watch out for Barbara...she's dangerous." ---Carol, 12/9/03, about Babs

"Well, is ANYONE in the True Ten not a ---- ?" ---Alyssa, 12/9/03 "Well, it's true!---Kristin, later

"How could anyone not have a dog...or a trust fund...or grape jelly?!?!" ---Rerun, from Peanuts (the new Christmas special aired tonight)

December 9, 2003
Speak Of The Devil

time 8:14 pm feeling strangely sore music CHRISTMAS! ready for FRIDAY next I should do work...but I am kind of fried...and high from the spray mount, oh yeah baby

God. I feel like Debi Thomas at the 1984 Olympics. "So...this is IT?!" I should be joyous and elated but instead I am just relieved it is over. Hopefully this feeling will soon be replaced by the elation I did indeed feel earlier this day.

OK, so not really, that's an exaggeration. But apparently I exaggerate everything I say, as my Kindergarten friends told me today. Alas. I think everyone is about ready to kill me, except for Carol who doesn't seem to mind...perhaps she is just thankful I am almost out of her hands. I have been very happy and crazy so far this week and I think it makes people, especially my friends, very mad, because I should be suffering. Instead I am trying to ignore this suffering by looking on the bright side! The joy of Friday! The coming of Christmas! The happiness of a week of nothing but sleeping and Christmas stuff and friend seeing!

Ah, but it still pisses people off. Steve (Marth) said it best today:

"I never thought the end of the semester could actually kill me, but by Sunday I'm pretty sure I'm going to be dead."

Yeah man. As Andy and I tried to instruct the juniors today, being a senior sucks man! Count your blessings. But again, ought I be complaining? GD4 = done. Scared as always to present tomorrow. Maybe I'll do more spray mount before the fact. Type = also done. It's sticky and icky and horribly messy, but it is DONE. Where's the elation, where's this elation?? ;) Hah.

Brad's stuff is FAR from done, I can't get myself to do it. This was the project I was going to finish over TG (Thanksgiving or The Great Tease break, depending on how you look at it) break! Come on Lex! Maybe I'll have some dinner and do that next.

Enough. Today has been a fabulous day. There is lots of snow which is LOVELY for Christmastime! We had free pizza post Kindergarten, and many laughs during. "It's like you gave us candy and then yanked it away!" Yeah. I printed to Splash JUST before it broke. I am blessed and lucky. Kristin assured me that I don't get grades "just based on your charm, despite what you may think." Even though I might not agree. She attended Brad's CPS pizza party with me which was great. I love those frosh. Then here to make icky sticky Q book. THEN as I was doing this the new Peanuts Christmas special was on. I LOVED it. I LOVE Rerun. He was so cute, and sounded just like Sacco! Lindsay Sacco, what a girl (I used to teach her at Midwest). I will never in my whole life forget that kid. She was all happiness and joy and life. I miss her.

OK enough. And Kristin and I had a good laugh leaving McNeal. So you see, all in all a good day. Now a little dinner and paper reading. YEAH. Why am I updating?? WHY?! I have so much to do! But that's the way I go, eh. Alright, enough. Good luck to all you darlings out there finishing up. Be excited for The Next Step!!!

---Lexi