I haven't written in quite awhile because I've been busy. Last week I had tests in lots of my classes and I worked on my english essay on 1984 most every day. I had to reformulate a lot of it so that it followed a thesis, I had combined characters and themes but it wasn't structured enough. I had about 30 pages which was bad because it can only be 25, so I changed the font to skia and now I only have 21 pages. I have to write a separate theme section and then I will be done! It is such a massive undertaking. I made some artwork for it in photoshop. I have an environmental bio test on Tuesday and my English paper is due on Tuesday so I have a lot of work to do.

On Friday we had a mural project reunion, it was so good to see everyone! I had missed them a lot. We met at the art museum and analysed our mural for awhile. Everyone managed to make it, except Jody of course because she is at college. We reminisced about Nosferatu and Scott McCloud (a fabulous comic artist), and then went to Coffee Cat. Scott McCloud is coming to UCSB at 5:00 on Tuesday to lecture at Sherra's class but I have my bio test at 6:00 that night. I really wanted to hear him speak. Sherra is so sweet, she bought drinks for everyone! I got a green sobe. Aron told me that Mike took him out to lunch to thank him for helping him with calc. I love all of the muralists so much, I forgot how much we laugh together. I took the SAT 1 on Saturday morning, and then Clara and Marissa came over in the afternoon. My parents left for a party, which was bizarre considering they go out maybe once or twice a year. We hung out for awhile and went over to Buzz's.

Clara blasted Ace of Base while we were driving. We went over to tempo and there was this really cool cd that Clara found by this Japanese electronica band. I listened to that and watched The Nightmare Before Christmas because it was playing in the store while Marissa and Clara ran over to the bank. Marissa found a magazine with Bjork on the cover, it was fabulous. We rented the Nightmare Before Christmas and then went and picked Thal up. I hadn't seen him in so long, I was so happy that I got to see him. I got a really bad headache which was weird because I never get headaches, but it was just because I hadn't been feeling well. We got Buzz and then came and watched the Nightmare Before Christmas. It was so great being with Thal, I had a really good time. Today my mom is being quite mean to me. Hilary called and my mom listened to our conversation and grabbed the phone out of my hand because she was mad that I was talking about Pres. She really just wanted an excuse to get mad at me because she is still bitter that I won't tell her what I did with the money I made working as an artist this summer. She will never know what happened to it if I can help it. Then I came to work on my English paper and she took the plug to the computer because I had forgotten to wash my cup. I just try not to respond because all she wants is power over me.

I found the most beautiful song ever, it is called Cathedrals by Jump Little Children. The lead singer's voice is so achingly beautiful and it has instrumental sections. Be warned though, after listening to it nothing else sounds as good as it used to.