"They love to tell you, stay inside the lines...

but something's better on the other side..."


Three cheers for low expectations. I came to school today late, my homework undone, dreading Psychology. I spent yesterday watching movies. I came home from the English AP, watched Dead Man Walking, cried my eyes out, watched Snow Falling on Cedars, teared up, and finally, watched Volver. All three were very good movies. And it was worth it. And the last thing one feels like doing when one gets home from writing for two hours straight is do more work. So there.

I steeled myself for my teacher's reactions. Well, my first stroke of luck was that my Math class was in the library, researching for our final project. I looked up some websites for later reference and then proceeded to finish writing the third study for my Psychology project, jotting down a hypothesis and not caring what the group thought of it, seeing as no one bothered to contact me about working in the first place. Zoe did not bother to thank me when I came to class with study sheet and hypothesis in hand, but then again, it's Zoe. I'm fairly convinced that it was she who convinced one of the people from her group of friends to pinch my butt at a dance two years ago, or at least she was giggling when I turned around, and I have not forgotten it.

So, I brought the homework to Psych and hoped for the best with the essay portion of the final. And I knew every one of the terms! Even the one that I guessed at. It was so cool! Then, we watched Mujeres Al Bordo Del Un Ataque Nervioso (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) in Spanish and it was the strangest, funniest thing I've seen in a long time. And Antonio Banderas is in it with one of those cropped but poofy haircuts and glasses, and he stutters, and I didn't even recognize him until Sra. Elkind said, "Así es Antonio Banderas" and the whole class went, "WHAT?"
In Theatre I had my monologue down word for word (the best out of the class) and I only made a slight error in moving to Susannah Kaysen instead of Beatrix Kiddo (we chose three characters and had to seamlessly move between them. My third was Maggie Fitzgerald from Million Dollar Baby), but no one noticed, I'm sure. The icing on the cake was when my Anatomy teacher pushed back the lab until Monday, and our quest until Thursday! So it was a spectacular day on all accounts.

I went to see Romeo and Juliet and it was lovely. It was really well done. Mercutio was stunning. He stole every scene he was in (as Mercutio should) and I never do this, but I went up to him afterward and said, "You don't know me, but I wanted to say that you were spectacular." I just couldn't... not.

So, overall, it was a pretty good day! All you have to do it go in with rock bottom expectations.