Seventeen Muses

Following up on my April Resolutions! I did pretty well this month. New resolutions coming out tomorrow.

1. Make a firm, happy decision with colleges and submit my intent to register before May 1st so that I avoid any and all server fiascoes
Check!
In the words of Snow Patrol, Just Say Yes (funny because this song just came on Pandora--it's a sign!).

2. Get my running up to 2 miles by the end of the month
Check!
Funny because I did this today on the last day of the month. Today I ran a 5K, which is about 3.1ish miles. So not only did I complete this, surpassing my 2 miles but I ran 2 miles of it, intermixed with walking of course. I got my run up to two months but out of the 3.1ish miles I did, I ran a solid 2! This is a huge accomplishment for me. I've never done a 5K. Next weekend I want to walk a 10K with my mom.

3. Finish Grapes of Wrath, Watership Down, and one other novel
Half-Check!
I finished both Grapes of Wrath and Watership Down but I have not completed a third. I'm a bit over halfway through Ender's Game and I'm going to try and finish it tonight but I may finish it tomorrow.

4. Finish Nightingale
Check!
I did the impossible!

5. Make an awesome senior project presentation!
Check!
I was freaking out about it but I got up there and I was myself and I feel like I did justice to Nightingale. I passed with Honors!

6. Create a days-till-I-graduate countdown
Check!
I did this on our refridgerator whiteboard.

It's updated as of today! 20 days!

7. Apply to a few scholarships
Check!
I applied to three very good local ones, all of which I have a chance at getting. I also recieved another small check from a local organization for being student of the month.

8. Blog more... ?
Failed...
Uhm, no comment.

9. Take more photos (at least once a day???)
Failed...
No.

10. Work on doing one pull-up/one push-up
Half-Check!
I worked on both for sure. I still can't do either. I guess that's not entirely my resolution but I would like to do one of each at some point.

Hey, I'd say I did pretty good this month! Lucky because this has been a really tough, long month. Needless to say I'm looking forward to May. I have AP exams next week and my birthday is the week after.

I finished Nightingale.

I don't even know what to think or feel but it's done and printed and beautiful.

150 pages.

109,000 words.

2 years.

Wow.



Now what?

My presentation on Nightingale is Tuesday night and that morning, I have another presentation for Rotary Club for winning a Senior Student of the Month award where I have to also talk about Nightingale. Big day on Tuesday. I'm very excited and very nervous. I haven't done public speaking in about a year so I'm going to be in front of my mirror today for at least four hours. Wish me luck!

Felines live in such a delicate balance between cuteness and laziness. Typically it seems they lay in one trait or the other.

I haven't decided which Skittles is.



I'm leaning towards lazy.

I've been getting a lot done recently (except for blogging). I have a couple other posts planned but that would require digging up my camera and effort.

I ran 1.3 and 1.5 miles Thursday and yesterday respectively. I haven't run a mile in about three years. My leg muscles feel a bit like Jello and ball bearings mixed together but I am unbelievably proud of myself, albeit, not proud enough to post my times. I will say that day two, I ran the first mile in about 2 minutes less than one mile had taken me the day before. I'm trying to work up to two miles by the end of the month but because of the patchy weather, I'm not sure that'll happen.

Nightingale is actually going well. I feel the end and I am unbelievably sad. I have six scenes yet to write but I've been putting it off because I know when I'm done, the emptiness of not having a such a massive project on my hands will come.

In other news, I graduate in 6 weeks. It could not come sooner. I've decided that I hate high school and I'm bored in all of my classes. AP tests are really the only things that matter anymore. I'm counting the days till I walk across that stage and get the insignificant piece of paper that really isn't a good enough reward for the life-consuming work I've put into the last four years. Leaving the country a week later is the true reward.

My school's Prom is tonight which means I'm going out to Thai food tonight with Robyn (and thus not going to Prom). Neither of us have had Thai so it's going to be a real experience. I'll take pictures of my food and post them to make you jealous and hungry.



On a totally random note, this picture makes me miss my short hair like no other. It also makes me miss the amount of eyeliner I used to wear. Why don't I wear eyeliner anymore?



And this picture makes me miss my long, beautiful, straight hair. I'm determined to have long hair again but I hate, hate, hate the growing out process. It's awful and wavy and cut stupidly right now. I can't have hair like that in college though. I'll break my hairbrushes and spend all my limited budget on shampoo.

I leave for Italy in two months.



I know that seems like a long time but I cannot contain my excitement.

I'm tempted to put a bunch of stuff on here that I know I will do (such as breathe) because of last month's failures. But, I have to be true to myself and work hard so here goes.

1. Make a firm, happy decision with colleges and submit my intent to register before May 1st so that I avoid any and all server fiascoes


2. Get my running up to 2 miles by the end of the month


3. Finish Grapes of Wrath, Watership Down, and one other novel


4. Finish Nightingale


5. Make an awesome senior project presentation!


6. Create a days-till-I-graduate countdown


7. Apply to a few scholarships


8. Blog more... ?


9. Take more photos (at least once a day???)


10. Work on doing one pull-up/one push-up

Laugh all you want but I really can't do a single pull-up or push-up. I can go on for hours with crunches but my arm strength is nearly inexistent. I'd like to change that, mostly to shake my father's mockery.

Also, as an unofficial goal, I'd like to keep up my weight loss. I've lost 20 pounds since Thanksgiving, 13 since the beginning of the year, and 10 in the last two months. I'm narrowing down on my goal which is fifteen more by graduation. I'm doing so well but with Easter and with plenty to celebrate, it'll be tough this month. Wish me luck!

I have a good feeling about this month (which may or may not have anything to do with the first two weeks of it being taken up by spring break).