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Number 5 on my to do list today is blog, so here I am! Number 3 is to write Marissa a letter. A ridiculously late overdue letter :D

I don't really need a to do list today, because I don't have anything I NEED to get done. Well, besides go to work in 2 hours. But that's precisely why I made one, because if I don't create a need for myself to do something, I don't do anything. Having these tasks written on paper tricks me into thinking it's really, really important I do it. Yeah, I'm kind of gullible.

Speaking of work, that's going ok. It's a little stressful though, I'm very worried about getting everything right, but I keep forgetting things. I was recently moved to cashier because the girl before me ended up $10 under, so they took her off and put her on probation for three months, and if she gets another write up, she's fired. :O This really freaks me out, because I'm pretty sure I've already racked up a few write ups. It's so hard to remember everything, because the registers are really old so we have to type everything in, instead of scanning it. And if you hit a wrong button you have to have a manager void it, which you get written up for, which has happened to me several times. Rawr.

Marissa, you mentioned I was back in the world of commenting, which is kind of true, ha. The thing is, girls, I let your blogs pile up in my reader until I have about 8 to read, and then I go through them, and THEN I comment. So, I don't read your blogs right away, but I do read them.

Hm. I'm not really sure what the point of this blog was, other than to check it off my to do list. Checking things off is an extremely satisfying pass time, by the way.

Anna out bitches.

Books read: 32. Still woefully behind. Marissa, I looked in our library for the Spellman Files, but they didn't have them! I'll have to go into the city library

I'm Awesome.

Why hello there. So let's dive right into my excuses shall we? So I missed a few days in BEDA. Well ok more than a few. And as my missed BEDA days accumulated, I just felt like I had already missed too many to rightly go back to finishing BEDA. I felt like I would just be trying to pretend I was accomplishing BEDA, so I told myself I'd go back to blogging regularly in May. But by then I was out of the habit of blogging, and I just didn't do it. So yeah there it is!

But I want to get back to blogging, if only so I can have some record of my thoughts for later in life. ALSO I *really* want to get back to reading and commenting on everyone's blogs, because that's what I've really felt guilty about.

A lot has happened to me since my last entry! The most important being, I GOT A FUCKING JOB. Honestly this feels like such a giant weight off my shoulders. I have been trying to get a job for over a year (admittedly I didn't really know at ALL the proper way to apply for a job the first 7 or so months though). And not to pat myself on the back, (ok, yeah, that's what I'm doing) but I'm so proud of myself! The job is at Salvation Army, and I had NO connections and NO help which is more than I can say for most of the people I know who have jobs. It was my first job interview ever, and I got it, and yeah. I'm awesome, haha.

I start tomorrow, and I'm quite nervous! I honestly don't know anyone there, and I've never been in this position before.

School is winding down, only 10 more full days. I think. I don't feel like counting. This also means exams are coming...but I didn't study until 2 days before last tri and it worked, so who am I to argue with success?

I miss all you TSR girls! I feel like everything has been crazy lately, and we haven't been posting as much! :'(

Anna out, bitches

Books read: 31 (I'm really behind! Anyone have book suggestions?)

PS: I have decided to stop using Beatles songs as titles. Not only am I running out of relevant songs, but I also feel it is less cool/original and more prententious/annoying than I thought it was

BEDA April 14

Today's theme: travel.

Here's the thing. In theory, I am in love with travel. Really. I love the idea to death. I love the idea of going to amazing new places, learning amazing new things, and meeting amazing new people. In theory, I want to travel all over the world, as often as I can.

In reality, all my experiences with travel-not that great. I hate car rides. They make me sick to my stomach, they're boring and smelly, my legs get cramps. I don't like being away from home; I always forget to pack something vital like a razor or my glasses and then I can't just, go home and get it. I often feel ill when on vacation away from home, (maybe it's a psychological thing?) and it SUCKS being sick in a hotel or someone else's house. By the time I get home I'm pretty much crying with relief.

The reason for this reality is probably because I'm doing the wrong kind of travel. I'm only 17 so most of the traveling I've done has been with my family. We drive down to Florida every other Christmas, and 22 hours in the car with my family is no picnic. Plus my dad falls violently ill while we're there EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. so at this point in my life I all but hate Florida.

I have only taken two trips without my parents, one trip down to Florida (Disney world) with my friends in 5th grade, and another trip with those SAME friends again to Florida last year. And both were fun. So come to think of it, I think my family is the main factor in my distaste for travel.

Still, I hope to travel a lot more with out my family in the future. I would love to visit Europe again (last time was in 3rd grade, I didn't really appreciate it then) especially now that I have friends there! =] Hopefully I get to go to Europe for study abroad in college 2 years from now. I really want to see California, and some southern states, and of course see all the cities in the East. And it's always been my dream as a little girl to visit Australia.

That's all I have, time to attack that homework.

Oh and sorry for missing days again....school's a bitch.

Anna out, bitches.

Books read:24

BEDA April 11

Weekly wrap-up!

My week was quite good, what with it being Spring Break and all. In fact, it may have been the best week of my life because of Wednesday. Although there were some bad things, like my mom being sick all week, the rain, and the excessive driving. Bah but I'm just in a bad mood because I have to go back to school tomorrow, really it was good!

Monday- College visits. in Ohio. 5.5 hour drive. UGH. Kenyon's campus (where John Green went to school incidentally!) was really beautiful, but I dunno, the people there were very...reclusive. Denison didn't have nearly as attractive as campus but I really liked it a lot better, more stuff was going on.
Tuesday- a haze of my mom being really sick in bed all day and stressing out trying to make the Wednesday Chicago trip work.
Wednesday- Best. day. ever. Please see my BEDA April 8 post for full detail.
Thursday- Not even really a day. I slept until 2pm due to the fact that I hadn't gotten to sleep until like 3am. Then when I did wake up I wrote the longest blog of my life, caught up on everything internet, and then started Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
Friday- Finished reading Will Grayson, Will Grayson, marveled at the talent of John Green and David Levithan, then went to see Date Night (hilarious).
Saturday- Did chores, then went to the roller derby with the family.

And there you go, so perhaps not the best week EVER, but still, no school right?
And I have been ridiculously ontop of my internet duties this week! That's all about to change tomorrow haha. ohwell.

Anna out, bitches.

books read: 23

BEDA April 10

Shopping! Something I used to loathe for years, but as time goes by (sorry I'm no Sam) I've been warming up to it.

I still do tire easily when shopping (SO much walking!) and usually end up sitting on a bench/shelf/clearance rack to rest my poor feet.

BUT I did just go to Chicago, so it's kind of mandatory to do some shopping with the Magnificent Mile right there and all. I got 2 shirts and a dress that I am very happy about, and of course the infamous color changing nail polish.

The place I spend the most is honestly Barnes and Noble, it's pretty much impossible for me to go in that store without buying something. I'm such a book snob, I mean, I go to the library frequently, but I just usually end up buying what I read anyways. I want it to be MINE. So I don't have worry about bending the spine or tearing a page. Plus, books from the library are often kind of gross. A recent one I got had like, chocolate smeared on the pages. And some very clever person realized how hilarious it would be to Sharpie out all words ending in a-s-s so it said ASS. Har, har, har, swearing is so hilarious. So yeah, I like to buy books.

I mainly get my clothes at Kohls, because they're cheap, and if you search through the crap you can find some cute stuff. Sort of.

Today I went to the roller derby with my family, which was interesting, especially after seeing Whip It. Although, the atmosphere was a lot less...loud than it was in the movie and the food sucked. But, it was fun, we were the "Killamazoo Derby Darlings" and the opposing team was the "Montreal Sexpos". So, yeah.

Tomorrow is OFFICIALLY the last day of vacation! D= I probably won't be as ontop of these blogs once school starts up...

Anna out, bitches

Books read this year: 23

BEDA April 9

Ok back to our regularly scheduled BEDA themes! Today's is "Teach us ". Hmm what can I teach you?

There's the things institutional public education has taught me, like the quadratic formula (-b+- √b^2-4ac/2a), dangling modifiers, and all the presidents of the US in order (seriously I know them all. I have a song.). But uh, these things are neither fun nor useful to know.

Really this is the kind of stuff I'm good at though, which is sweet for now, because it gets me good grades, but I have a feeling won't be very helpful in the future. What I'm trying to say is, I don't really know anything unusual or cool to tell you all.

Today is the last day of Spring Break! Now it's really just a weekend. I'm not too upset, my break was good, plus I kind of like the fact that school forces me to get up. I've slept wayyy too much this week.

In other exciting news I bought a really balling shirt in Chicago that I'll be wearing in my video Monday (Ari's birthday!) that I think you guys will appreciate. Oh and I also bought some grey nail polish which I put on last night, and this morning I woke up and it was orange! o.O Apparently it changes with heat. Mind. Blown. But I was super confused this morning when I saw it.

Anna out, bitches.

Books read: 23--- I finished Will Grayson, Will Grayson; and WOW another brilliant book from John. Best book I've read this year hands down.

BEDA April 8

**** This blog is ridiculously long and includes a play-by-play of pretty much everything that happened when I saw John Green and David Levithan. Don't feel obligated to read/comment, because it's really just for me, getting all the details down on "paper" so I don't forget.

WOW, so ha I guess I won't get the satisfaction of saying I completed BEDA this year. Oh well.

These last few days have been crazy with downs and ups, although last night was the ultimate UP so that's what I'm going to talk about.

As I think you all know, I MET FREAKING JOHN GREEN. My mom is officially the best mom in the world because she agreed to drive my friends and I all the way to Chicago (2.5 hours...) yesterday so I could meet him. And it was everything I thought it would be plus more.

We were about 15 minutes early when we walked into The Theater Building, I wasn't really expecting to see John right away. But as we filed in, he was RIGHT THERE, sitting next to his laptop, and it was so surreal. It's like, you watch someone online for almost 2 years, and follow their tweets and everything and all the evidence suggests that, yeah, they're a real person and you THINK you understand that, but...I guess somewhere deep down I didn't really believe it until I saw it.

Anyways so yeah, there he was just sitting there 5 feet away from me being real, and I was totally thrown off. And then I realized I was staring and, being real, he had eyes, and could see me staring. I panicked, and to cover, I made the nerdfighter gang sign to him, which he returned, and then I ran for my seat while thinking "ZOMG John Green can see me, he just made the nerdfighter sign at me, that proves it!!!" Which is totally true.

And then I realized, oh my god, not only am I going to meet John Green tonight, John Green is going to meet ME tonight. o.O Which wasn't a great thought, because I (rightly) knew I was going to FREAK out and he was just going to think I was weird. Also totally true.

So then I was just nervous like nothing else, so much so that I was kind of wishing I was just safe at home watching the livestream like Ashley and Lo. Then of course I get the text from Ashley that she is watching the livestream, and I am there watching IRL and that was also kind of a surreal-awesomy feeling. So then I start shouting things trying to get Ashley and Lo to hear me on the livestream, which worked, but came with the price of almost every sinlge person there turning around to look at me whenever I screamed "HI ASHLEY!" or "HI LO!". But they were nerdfighters, so they were nice about it.

Meanwhile John and David were just kind of wandering in and out of the room eating doriotos, and THEN Wheezy Waiter shows up, and John's all "Look everyone, it's Wheezy Waiter!" and I embarass myself by actually gasping, because not going to lie, I really think Wheezy Waiter is the funniest person on youtube (which I later told him), and probably my 2nd favorite youtuber. I knew he lived in Chicago, but I wasn't really expecting to see him so that just made my night, as if it wasn't already made enough.

The actual event finally began with this pretty cheesy lady asking us about good things that came in two's (a simple introduction of John and David would have been more appropriate I think) but I shouted "Ron and Hermione!" which got a good laugh from the nerdfighters and that made me feel special =].

Then John and David came out and talked about Will Grayson, Will Grayson for a bit, I was surprised to learn they wrote most of their chapters without consulting each other, I always just assumed they had been in the same room when they wrote it.

They went on to do some readers theater from the book with Liz from sistersalad which was highly entertaining, and I plan on posting on youtube within the next few days. After that they did Q&A and I asked the first question which made me feel EXTREMELY special. Not so special that I babbled and complicated a fairly simple question (Was it harder to write a book with someone than by yourself?) but oh well.


There were LOTS more questions after that, and some very entertaining stories and moments from John and David, including the fireman story, John's willingness to steal stories, and also David gloating that his book has been a movie. David, btw, was really hilarious as well, and so far I've only read one book of his (The realm of possibility) but I definitely plan to read them all now.

My favorite question was Craig's (wheezy's) "What's the address of Frenchy's?" (porn shop). Lmao XD. oh wheezy. Which then prompted a story of how David and John went to Frenchy's to take pictures and be nerdy =]

I didn't film the whole Q&A because I was running low on memory, and I needed some for John to say hi to thesquirrelrebellion =]

So then we finally got to the book signing part, my friends who were way over this went to wait outside, and since I was number 37 and they had you go up 10 at a time, I took the oppurtunity to say hi to Wheezy Waiter. Well, bumble like a moron to him is more like it. I told him he was the funniest person on youtube and that I watch his videos everyday. He didn't really say anything back, I think I embarrassed him and/or he thought I was mentally challenged. But he was nice enough to let me take a picture with him!



After that my mom and I went to sit down while I waited for it to be my turn to go up, and during this time a brilliant nerdfighter gave John a book by the OTHER John Green, about Sasquatch, which John loved so much he announced it to the room and I found myself wishing I had something cool to give John.




Somehow (I have no idea how) my mom and I missed the calling of my number, so they were like in the 40s by the time I went up, but no big deal, cus, hello, I MET JOHN GREEN. I told John he and Hank had changed my life (so true) and he said that was very nice of me to say (I think he also thought I was challenged)and David pointed out that I hadn't said whether they'd changed it for the better or not. And then he and John signed my copy of Will Grayson, Will Grayson for me, and I got John to say hi to the squirrel rebellion. THEN I asked if I could take a picture, and they said they couldn't stop do any formal poses but you could just...take pictures. So I went behind them and my mom took this nice creeper pic of me behind David and John.

And then, since I was back there already, I tried to wave hi to Lo and Ashley on the livestream, but I wasn't sure if it worked or not, but apparently it did so Ashley has some footage of me being confused that I can't wait to see =].

Then I thought the night was so full of awesome and it couldn't get any awesomer, but I was wrong because Ashley called me and we had a very brief phone conversation, which I cut short because my friends were glaring at me and we had to start the 2.5 hours drive back (it was already 10:30pm our time). But it was awesome to talk all the same.

WOW this is a really long blog, I swear you guys don't have to comment, it's really for myself. I tried to include every detail so I won't forget, because it was probably the best night ever. I also got some pretty sweet things while shopping in Chicago, but uh, I think this is long enough =] Plus I need to go read Will Grayson, Will Grayson now.

Anna out, bitches.

Books read:22