veinte de noviembre

I can't believe New Moon is finally here. To make things clear, I honestly don't care whether or not 'everyone else likes it'. I had the same attitude about the saga before I started reading, and before I watched Twilight. Once you start reading it, you understand what everyone is talking about. Seriously. Stephenie Meyer is such a brilliant writer, it's hard to even get your head around how her mind can grow such beautiful stories. And I know, to most thirteen year old girls it's simply fantasizing about the movie version of Edward, but for everyone else, it's the stories. I promise. I usually don't like to claim that I love something that everyone else does, but believe me, with the Twilight Saga, it's hard not to. Tomorrow is going to be so much fun. My sister and I are getting dressed up, going to have dinner, and dragging Richie and Derek to see New Moon. (Kristie and I both know that they're secretly excited. Derek said so himself, and Richie spent hours last night reading about the Olypmic Coven.) I'm doing six original editorials for my grad project, and I'll be including a New Moon movie review as one. I'll be posting them here, so please read.



My horoscope for today says: You should be in the company of some very interesting --and wise -- people today, and should definitely make time to ask big questions and absorb responses fully. You can learn quite a lot!

Hmm. Does this mean my teachers and the customers at work?

a long bunch of thankfulness.

I feel like this year has flown by. I want to say today that I'm really thankful for my job. Last night at work was very busy. I was by myself for about three hours, and people kept pouring through the doors. Usually this stresses me out, but for some reason, last night I was just in a mood to work. My face lit up when the Atheys came in with little Matthew. He's seriously my favorite little kid in the whole world. After making three pots of coffee (which I love doing, it smells so good), I finally got to go sit down and talk to Matt. He's so funny! He wanted to help me clean off all of the tables, so I let him hand me the ketchups and move the salts and peppers. I love him. It's people like him and his family that make me love working there. Today, I am also very thankful for my ability and opportunity to learn. This year especially, I really dread coming to school each morning. But I really want to understand that I have an incredible advantage by living here. Though I do not consider myself a proud American, I am very grateful for the opportunities that my generation is receiving. I think about the children around the world who can't go to school, who would die to sit in a desk and learn about asymptotes and Hamlet like I do, and half the time, I'm complaining about another day in high school. I'm not saying that I love school, I'm just saying that I'm glad that I have a chance to really learn. On that note, I'm so thankful that I'm graduating this year. It will be great to walk across the stage and finally say that I'm moving on.

My horoscope for today says: Don't be too alarmed if you start to see or hear things that aren't there -- it's just your subconscious trying to spice things up a little! Go with the flow and things should settle down soon.

Guess I'm gonna see a ghost today.

I'm a little nervous - my phone bill is due tomorrow and I only have half of the payment ready. Only 35 more dollars to go! Hopefully we'll do good in tips at work. "Everything's gonna be alright.."

Have a good day.