"geeks bearing gifts."

this is just a post about yearbook. i don't know what it is about it, but it's seriously one of my favorite things i've done during my four years of high school. maybe it's because it's basically just me and julie doing everything. our advisers, mr. lajoie and mr. adams (jadams), are awesome, though. there have been a ton of memories during those meetings in room 3036, but i think by far my favorite was when we stayed until 430 and mr. adams brought in his little daughter annabelle. she's like a year and a half, and she's absolutely adorable! she walked around and put her hands on our knees and kept saying "hi!" and tried to type and use the mouse while we were trying to edit pages. then we looked down for a second and she was lying in the middle of the floor, making a snow angel. but i think one of the things that hit me hardest was seeing how happy she made jadams. i dunno, but the look in his eyes when he saw her, picked her up, talked to her, you could tell that she was the most important part of his life--along with his wife, i'm guessing. it was one of the sweetest things i've seen in a while, and even though it sounds incredibly cheesy, it made my heart happy, and it makes me want to have a baby with a guy that i love. i hope that happens.

i've been having a lot of thoughts about how my life would have been different if i had gone to a private high school. with all the teachers at ola saying that i'd get shot or turned into an addict at a public school, that i wouldn't get any attention from teachers, that they wouldn't remember my name, that the kids at public schools are jerks headed nowhere in life. i'm so glad we drove by ahs one day and my mom was like, "hey, why don't you go there?" it has seriously shaped me into the person i am now, ten times more so than ola. i've met amazing kids with awesome personalities, they're always there for you, and teachers who are young, funny, and like to compare interests with us kids. it's fantastic. my best teachers have all been at ahs, except for ms. carroll, but she's the exception to the rule. the kids, the teachers, the school, the experience. i love it. i know that sounds wicked nerdy to say, "oh my god i love school and stuff," but i dunno. i really do feel this way. i'm gonna miss a lot of the people i went to high school with.

that being said, ms. clemmer's lit through film class is almost over :( i love this class. it's small, only ten kids, and julie and i are the only girls, but we've become a little family, and i don't want it to end. so julie, anthony, jeff, derek, nick, doug, eric, d-court, keith, and ms. clemmer, it's been awesome, and i'm never gonna watch the godfather the same way again.

wow, i got wicked sentimental tonight, huh?