"You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts." --2 Corinthians 3:3

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"You can see her underwear! I can't watch this anymore!"

[facepalm]

That was probably the funniest thing to happen at work the past two days. I got stuck with the babysitting job [which is NOT what they pay me for, by the way] and so I had to get these two really bratty little kids to go out into the waiting room of the dance studio with me and watch the DVD of last year's recital. The little girl was fine with it, she was actually pretty well behaved, but the other guy who works there and I had our hands full with the little boy. He was bored with everything and everything he saw sucked or whatever. And so he started just running around the waiting room sliding around on his knees and climbing under the tables and jumping on the couches. So I finally told him to go sit down and watch the DVD with his sister. Anywhoo, it happened to be one of the solos of a girl in my class. She did some kind of handstand-y thing and you could see her leotard under her skirt. That little boy was outraged. I don't think I've seen anything more funny in my entire life. He stands up looks at me and the other guy and declars, "You can see her underwear I can't watch this anymore!" And then he just marches up the hallway away from the waiting area. I think we laughed about that for hours afterwards.

So that was one of the more funny experiences of the last few days at the dance studio. There have been others, but nothing like that. We haven't been busy so most of the time me and some of the other employees just hang our in the office or the waiting room talking or playing cards.

Holy Cow

So I just got a phone call from one of the colleges I've been looking into. It's not one of the ones that I visited last week. I went there last year sometime. And then out of the blue I get this phone call--I'm assuming it's because they got my SAT scores--where the admissions person said they were willing to offer me an academic scholarship to attend their college next year. So I called them back, gave them my GPA and some other infromation and the lady gave me a ballpark figure for what they're offering me so I cand attend their college. $16,000. Per year. Holy !@#$. I was like 'are you kidding me?!'. It's a private college so it's north of $25,000 a year to attend there...but they're offering me pretty much half of my tuition if I attend there.

So, to pay for the rest of that tuition, I start work today. I am once again a shoe-fitter at the dance studio. Actually, I don't know if I'm fitting shoes this year. Supposedly my boss is bringing in another girl to help me and it's really not that tough or demanding of a job so I don't see why I would need help...but hey whatever. I just hope I'm not dealing with any of the paperwork. That would suck, I always screw up the paperwork... [facepalm]

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I miss anime. I feel like I haven't watched anything in forever. Which is true. Last anime I saw was during the school year and that was when I was renting Noein.

Don't you just hate when it feels like the things you really love aren't a priority anymore. Like I feel like all I can think about now is college and finishing high school and working and earning money and doing everything everyone expects me to do.

So anime is now on a back-burner.

It really sucks. I just want to hit 'pause' on my life for a minute and watch "My Neighbor Totoro".

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Rain and Movies

So we were going to go on a missions project today and go stain at some elderly lady's house...but it's pouring down rain. So we can't go. We're going to try to do it tomorrow. Hopefully it'll be dry by then.

It was brought to my attention yesterday evening that Studio Ghibli's most recent movie is about to be released in the US. So I finally got to see the trailer in English. And I have to say the movie looks good, but the people Disney chose for the voices don't. Miley Cyrus' little sister and the Jonas Brother's little brother? Really? But the movie comes out the same day as The Time Traveler's Wife, so I guess I won't go see it next Friday...and I can't go next Saturday because I have to work. But I do want to see it, despite the sucky voice casting. The only redeeming quality is Crispin Freeman is doing some kind of part in it [he's listed under 'additional voices' on Wikipedia] and Liam Neeson is in it. And I LOVE Liam Neeson's voice.

Senior Stuff

So considering I'm a rising senior, I got to take senior pictures today. A friend of mine is a really good photographer. She graduated from my school about three years ago and she's in college now so she's home for summer. It was easier taking pictures with her than it would've been with someone who worked at a studio--we had a lot more freedom. So it was my twin and I, our lovely photographer friend and then another friend who came to help out. We went all over town--we live in a really historic town--and took pictures. We went out by the river some and then to a lake and then a ton at the college, and some alleyways and an old mill. It was a ton of fun, but it was really hot and we all got really hungry. So hopefully we'll have gotten some really cool shots. I'm looking forward to seeing them.

Nothing else noteworthy has happened...I'm going on a missions project tomorrow. Get to stain/paint at an elderly lady's house tomorrow. That should be fun. Maybe I'll write about that tomorrow...