I hate my writing. It's beyond shitty.

I have a thing on my lip that is annoying the bejesus out of me.

I think I need a vacation.

My computer comes in the beginning of August! That's next week! ::dances::

I just talked to my friend Alicia for the first time in what feels like a century. The last time I talked to her was, I think, in 9th grade. Oh how far we've come. It was great, we talked for maybe an hour and it was like we had never lost touch. No awkwardness or strange silence or sad sob stories or anything. Alicia has always been the kind of person to say what everyone else is probably thinking. For example:

Alicia: So where are you going to school?
Robin: Ohio University
Alicia: What, to study pigs?!

We hung up because she had to go do something with her mom, but I'm insanely excited and wish we could have talked for longer. Alicia and I were best friends for the longest time and I'm glad that even though it's been awhile we still can talk like nothing's changed. It's funny, but when we first met in third grade we couldn't stand each other. I would always make fun of the weird trail mix stuff she brought in her lunch and she would call me a nerd. Then we ended up in ISG together and became friends because...well...there weren't too many girls in ISG at the time so we didn't have too many options. It was only 8 kids in the program to begin with. Alicia and I could be furious with each other at lunch time and best friends by afternoon ISG. We also happened to be exact opposites. She was the loud rebellous one while I was the quiet and shy goody-two shoes. Alicia did and said all the things I wanted to but couldn't. She moved away after middle school and we lost touch and that really sucks, but I'm so glad to be talking to her again.

The new Strongbad E-mail has Strongbad wearing Philippe-style glasses! Oh the insanity!

"Out on the street, you never know what you're getting and suddenly two days later, you're beating yourself in the head with a tennis racket, wearing a towel and quoting Poe. You don't want that for your kid." - Johnny Depp

Teeheehee.

So I have to say this. In sophomore year I was really gullible and bought a Guster CD from Dan Lange. Except that he never actually gave it to me. For over two years he said to me, "You'll get it before we graduate high school, I promise!". Well guess what...I'm all nice and graduated and still no Guster CD.

Although, to give Dan credit, he apparently did get me the CD during finals. Except he never actually gave it to me. So Dan, just to let you know, I still expect my CD.

And I know just what the response to this will be....

"You'll get it before we graduate college, I promise!"

Oh yeah, and Mari? Before I forget, at the beach the other day I saw a sign for a "romance" (porno) store called "P.S. I Love You".

In the strings class today Mr. Cook had everyone play a rhythm over and over again on the D string. He said "Some of you may realize what I'm about to do. Whatever you do, don't laugh. Whatever you do, keep playing." The kids continued to play the rhythm for awhile and I sat down in a corner and covered my face, knowing that something was going to happen soon and whatever it was that was going to happen would start me laughing uncontrollably. Not soon after that, Mr. Cook started barking like a dog. In rhythm. He was singing the beginning of "Who Let the Dogs Out?" by Baha Men.

Later, after the whole terrifying incident was over, he came up to me and said, "I saw you smiling in over in the corner...you know what I was going to do, didn't you?"
To which I responded, "I didn't know what you were going to do, but I knew you were about to do something stupid."
Mr. Cook then cracked up. It's great being able to tell teachers that they did something dumb. Haha, you bastards, can't take my diploma away now, can you?! Wahah!

Does anyone ever do Quote of the Day anymore?

Matt: "Why would they do that?"
Matt's Mom: "I don't know, maybe somebody found Jesus or something!"

I'm starting to be mad at my blog. It's just full of a bunch of crap which I now forget to/don't really feel like updating. It's like when I start writing in those pretty new blank books I always get at the bookstore, but realize my writing is too crap for such a pretty book and stop writing in it.

Except this isn't really pretty. This has a bunch of fruit on it. That kinda bugs me, too.

I think about starting a new one, but that's annoying because then it's a new web address and I have to tell everyone to change the link and I have to change all the settings...blah...I'll figure something out.

Linda and/or Matt need to be finished with what they're doing. I need people to come amuse me. I'm insanely bored.

I spent all afternoon reading my book and I finished it. It's called Why Girls Are Weird and I really liked it. It's about a woman who has an online journal....hmm....that sounds kinda familiar.......

But she was a much better writer than me. In fact as I was reading it, it made me feel guilty about my own blog and why didn't I write as well as her? Boo.

Bye for now.

Oh yeah, the comic is awesome. I think I want to scan the comic version of me into the computer and put it on the site at random times. It'd be funny. K, bye.

I had a truly horrible dream I was dead last night. It's still got me extremely shaken. I don't really want to talk about it. I think it might have had something to do with my college fear. And the fact that my family is going through my grandfather's things today. And maybe seeing Pirates of the Carribean.

Speaking of which, that was a completely awesome movie. I wanna go see it again right now. And I really liked Johnny Depp who usually kinda bothers me, though I haven't really seen him in movies. It's just him that sorta bothers me. But it was SOOOOO good. And the special effects, also amazing. And the dog with the keys and the pirate island...haha...so great.

I think there's a kid in my strings class who's some kind of prodigy. He's a little shaky on note reading at times, but you'd never know it from hearing him play. I asked him how long he'd been playing and he told me a couple weeks. A couple weeks?! I could barely play three notes after my first couple of weeks. It's insane.

Time to go and be bored or something. Bye.

Feeling much better now. Went to Paintin' the Plates with Linda and it was SOOO MUCH FUN! We both painted these container things, she did a sea theme and I put little lips/kisses/whatever all over mine. I'm not sure how great mine looks, (probably extremely girly...or obscene...depending on what it looks like after it's fired) but it was still lots of fun. There were these kids there who talked A LOT. This was overheard:

Kid 1: I helped God paint a rocket ship....he wanted to but he need my help....
Kid 2: Well...I helped Jesus paint a (I forgot what she actually said, but we'll pretend she said:) boat...Jesus needed my help to paint a boat.....

Kids are fun.

And I really want to see Pirates of the Carribean.

People kinda suck sometimes. Like when you have those kids who are supposed to be your bff and then they don't even make an attempt to come visit you for literally YEARS. No exhaggeration.

And then in your attempt to be a nice person, you tell them not to worry about it and it's really okay if they can't come see you until maybe a week or two before you leave the state for months despite the fact that you know that they probably will have some other excuse then, too.

It's not that you haven't seen them, you have. But it always requires YOU going and hanging out with THEIR friends who you can't keep up a conversation with because they all have their little inside jokes and it's YOU paying the train fair and packing your things and being the one who doesn't know your way around, instead of getting to introduce them to YOUR friends who would probably be nice and friendly and talkative and showing them around.

And deep down you really know that you've barely been friends with this person for years, and you're really getting sick of being the only one trying the keep things going and you can barely tell if you have anything in common anymore. And despite all this you still feel really horrible when they yet again make up some excuse to not see you.

So...you know...people really suck sometimes.

Getting mad at things that people you're not supposed to care about do is kinda silly. So I should stop doing it.

Diane! Call me!!! I'll come visit ya, it'll be fun. Gotta figure out when and where stuff, first though. So call me or e-mail me or something. Puh-llllleeeeaaaassseee???

My blog just nearly exploded. I hope splitting up the entry works.

I just got that annoying Brandy song stuck in my head...Have you Ever...must play Rent to get it to go away...

Okay, survey stolen from Linda. And she's so right, I'm the moodiest. How much does that suck?

[.*] BASiCs...
1) Full Name?: Robin Emily do you REALLY think I'm gonna put my last name on the internet?
2) Age?: 18 (crazy age, 18. I can go to jail for life as an adult, but I'm not allowed to drunk. Crazy crazy crazy.)
3) Zodiac sign?: Aries...it's probably right.
4) Sex?: Feh-mal-ee....long story...
5) What time is it? 11:22 PM

[.*] LaST PeRSoN wHO...
6) Slept in your bed: Me...or maybe my cat...but she's not a person, is she?
7) Saw you cry: Hmm...can't remember...either Matt or my parents...
8) Made you cry: I don't know if anyone's really made me cry for doing anything......and if they did I'm not writing it here 'cause I don't want them to feel bad....
9) Spent the night at your house: Me and the cat...allll alone. Sigh.
11) You went to the movies with: Mari and Linda. Whee, we had a girls day. Lotsa fun.
12) You went to the mall with: Linda and we saw Mari there. Day of prom to get make up done and look for undies. Hehehe. Undies. Sucha five year old.
14) Sent you an email: Philippe
15) Said they were going to kill you: Dunno...
17) Gotten into a fight with: Probably Philippe. Or Mike. I'm always fighting with one of them. Usually not seriously though. I love those guys, even if I do fight with them. And like I said, usually it's not serious. Or I'm just overreacting. And...yeah, time to shut up.

[.*] HaVe yOu eVeR...
18) Been to New York?: Mmhmm
19) Florida?: Last November
20) California?: Yup. It's really pretty there.
21) Hawaii?: Nope
22) Mexico?: Nope
23) Russia?: Nope
24) Canada?: Yes
25) Danced naked: Probably when I was all alone and had just gotten out of the shower or something.
26) Dreamed about something and then it happened the next day?: Yup. Well maybe not the next day, but it happened soon after.
27) Stalked someone?: Er, I dunno...I hope not....
28) Had a mud bath?: I put mud bath stuff on me when we were in Israel, but I didn't take a mud bath, no.
29) Wished you were the opposite sex?: I think when I was younger for a little while once I figured out where babies came from. It scared me. But now I like being a girl, even with the cramps. :-)
30) Had an imaginary friend?: Yup.
31) What are your nicknames, who gave them to you, and why?: Nobody really uses nicknames for me anymore. There's always "Daria" though. Got that from I don't know where. A lot of people, I think. There's "Odie" which I got from Kaitlyn for my Garfield obsession. I don't know about anything else. I think I used to have more, but they've sorta faded away. That's okay, though.

[.*] EiTHeR / oR...
33) Blue or Pink: Blue most of the time
34) Backstreet Boys or N*SYNC?: N Sync annoy me less and I even like some of their music.
35) Wal-Mart or Target?: Target, definitely target. That is a wonderful store. Hehe.
36) Spring or summer?: Not sure.
37) Santa or Rudolph?: I'm Jewish
38) Math or English?: Usually English. Holy shit I got an A- in English for 4th quarter! That was insanely random......But it brought me up to a B- average for the year, which is soooo great. Anyway. Usually English, unless math is nice and easy like with my drug dealer math teacher. Or whenever Matt taught me math.
39) What are you going to do after you finish this survey?: Not sure. I should get to bed at some point soon. I have work tomorrow and other stuff to do, too.
40) What was the last food you ate?: M&M's...does that count?
41) High school or college?: Dunno yet, only been to high school so far. :-)
42) How many buddies are on?: 17
44) Last movie you saw?: "Bad Boys" with Matt.
45) Last noise you heard?: Music on my computer.

[.*] aBoUT YoUR FRiENDs...
46) Laughs the weirdest?: Sometimes Philippe has a funny laugh, but it's a good makes everyone else laugh, too, laugh.
47) Will grow up to be a model?: Aw, Linda, thanks. I dunno....being a model might be fun...but that's because I have an insane obsession with "America's Next Top Model" for some reason. But all my friends are so pretty!!!! Do I have to chose? Can we all just go be models and have fun and run around going to Paris and taking pictures in funny clothes?
48) Going to have the most kids?: Not a clue.
49) Have you known the longest?: Alice who I haven't talked to in so long.....kinda bothering me...sigh...not going to write anything bitchy...anyway...other than that, I think Molly and Laurel are the people I've known the longest who I'm still friends with.
50) Is the loudest?: We're all loud and all the loudest and different times.
51) Is the quietest?: Anna....sorry Anna, I love ya, but you're quiet a lot.
52) Do you have the most classes with: Don't have classes anymore....I don't know who I had the most classes with, though. Rebecca? Actually...it might have been Kevin...haha....
53) Do you talk to the most? Matt or Linda or Philippe
54) Is the funniest?: Pretty much all of my friends are insanely funny at different times. They all have their moments. :-)
55) Is the moodiest?: Yeah, Linda's right, me. That's kind of embarassing. I don't want to be moody!! Eep!!!
56) Can you tell most of your secrets to?: Matt and Linda and Philippe and Mari
57) Who can you usually go to about all of your problems?: Matt and Linda and Philippe and Mari and probably some other people, also.
59) Lucky number?: Do I have a lucky number? I dunno....

Rest of survey..hope this works...

[.*] sTuFF...
62) Do you have a crush on someone?: Can you have a crush on someone you're dating? 'Cause then, yeah.
63) How do you feel about the Ouigi Board?: Slightly scares me.
67) What book are you reading now?: I started Holes but I'm not really in the mood to read it right now. I think I need a more grown up book or a mystery or something right now. Probably because I just read Harry Potter. I need variety!!
68) What's on your mouse pad?: My mouse? The mouse pad is just plain dark blue, though, if that's what you mean.
69) Type of computer do you have?: Dell
70) Favorite magazine?: Er...I dunno....I don't really read magazines too much anymore.
71) Favorite sound?: Quoting Linda: "that little contented sigh people make when they're really comfortable or really [happy]" or laughter...generally..sounds of happiness :-)
72) Worst feeling in the world?: rejected or abandoned or not wanted
73) What is the first thing you think of when you wake in the morning? Go back to sleep :-)
74) Do you think roller coasters are scary or exciting? Scary
75) How many rings before you answer?: As many as it takes for me to get to the phone. It used to be 2 when I was little, but now I just answer it whenever I get to the phone.
76) Future daughter's name?: Not a clue. Like I said, I've thought about the name Sydney because my grandfather's middle name was Sidney, but that was really just a random thought when I was thinking about the name your kid after someone who died tradition.
77) Future son's name?: Again, not a clue. I wouldn't name a kid Sidney. Or Bernie (my grandfather's first name). So that's out. Sorry.
78) Chocolate or vanilla?: Mmm..chocolate...I'm a chocoholic.
79) Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?: Two. A monkey named Bananas that used to be rainbow colored when I was a baby and is now gray and worn, but I still love him. And my big red teddy bear (aptly named Teddy...and the funny thing is that it took forever to figure out what to name him) that Matt gave me for Valentine's day.
80) If you could have any job you wanted, what would it be?: Actress, definitely. With all the fun extras of getting to be random model girl and all that other stuff. But actress.
81) What is your favorite Snapple? Lemon. I'm boring.
82) Are you a lefty, righty or ambidextrous?: Righty. But I think I have a left handed brain. I'm weird. Nevermind.
83) Do you type with your fingers on the right keys?: Yeah. That's how I type so fast.
84) What's under your bed? A bunch of crap.
85) Favorite sport to watch?: Yankee baseball. Or random olympic sports which I find facsinating. Like swimming or ice skating or ski jumps. Ski jumps are the best.

[.*] aBOuT YOu...
87) Parents names?: Judy and Marty
88) When is your birthday?: 3/27/85
89) Eye color?: Still can't really decide. Definitely in the brown spectrum. But there's some green in them, too. And they're light. It's weird. But I'll just say brown for the sake of simplicity.
90) Hair color?: Brown (obviously, with the whole "typical brunette" thing) with blonde highlights which I'm pretty sure are growing out. I'm bored with my hair.
91) Piercing?: My ears used to be pierced, but I let them close because they were too much of an annoyance and always got infected and stuff when I tried to keep them open.
92) Tattoos?: None. I'd probably be too much of a wimp to get one even if I could, despite the fact that I think they're kinda cool. Besides the whole Jew thing doesn't allow it.
93) Do you work?: Yeah, at the Yellow Shirt thing. Blah.
94) Best gift you've ever received from someone other than family?: My necklace from Matt and various other fun things from my friends. I love my friends.
95) Hometown?: Here.
96) Current Residence?: My house.
97) Been in love before?: Yes
98) Loved somebody so much it made you cry?: Yes
99) Been in a car accident?: Yes, but not a huge one where people got hurt (thank goodness, I never want to be in one of those. I don't want anyone to be in one of those. Ever.)
100) Favorite movie?: Not sure, it changes a lot.
101) Favorite holiday?: Dunno, that also changes a lot.
104) Favorite toothpaste?: Whatever tastes decent and cleans my teeth well.
105) Favorite restaurant?: JP Lee's or Roman Gourmet (out of loyalty and where else am I gonna get chicken parm pizza?) Or maybe Olive Garden also out of the fact that I love Italian food so much.
106) Favorite flower?: Not really sure. Roses are pretty, despite the allergies. But so are tulips and lotsa other flowers.
102) Favorite day of the week?: Days when I can be with the people I care about :-)
107) Drink?: Not big with alcohol. More into yoohoo and ice tea. Haha. I'm such a loser.
108) Country?: Er....I dunno...I've only really been to three...I really want to go to England and Ireland, though.
110) Favorite Sesame Street character?: Big Bird. Or Snuffy. But mostly Big Bird, I think.
111) Disney or Warner Brothers?: Muppets?
112) Fast food restaurant?: I kinda got turned off of fast food after that video in Bio and that KFC horror story I heard from Zack in pit.
113) What color is your bedroom carpet?: White with many stains and it's kinda faded/creamish now.
114) Who was the last person who you got mail from?: Friend of my mother's I think.
115) What do you do most often when you are bored?: Attack my friends with "I'm boooooooorrrred"
116) Name the friend that lives furthest away from you?: Er, I dunno. Sandy and family in CA?
117) Most annoying question people ask you?: Dunno..I'm tired.
118) Favorite all-time TV show?: Not sure, often changes.
119) Last person you went out to dinner with?: Probably Matt. Maybe my parents? But probably Matt.
120) Favorite music?: I've got lots of favorite music.
121) Favorite book?: There are lots. I'm too tired to list right now.
122) What CD is in your player right this second?: Nothing. But I was just listening to "Take Me or Leave Me" from Rent on the computer.

Good night.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!

Matt got a new camera. I want to steal it and make it my own because it's just so much cooler than my camera.

Do you ever feel like calling people "Smellyface McGee"?........I do.

And now I'm sleepy. Good night.

Work Rant

Let me start off by saying that work sucks my ass. I have no fun, cute little kids like I did last year. Instead I have obnoxious pre-teens and the Harry Potter kids who run around poking each other with "wands" (sticks with ribbon hot glued to them) and shouting "Wingardium Leviosa!" at each other. And the sad thing is that half the time I actually know what the spells they're doing mean.

Then there's my "Who's Line Is It?" class which is absolutely a dreadful topic for a class. They should just have it be improv and then it would be fun and maybe people would actually know what the class is about. For some reason I think we're supposed to do the games they do on the TV show. Except that unless you are a skilled improv-er whatever the word is and have had years of training, those games are boring and dumb. So yesterday the class got bored and frustrated and started yelling and everything. Plus there's this group of girls who are funny, but pick on people when they are bored or on kids who are...well..maybe..let's say "slightly off". So it's only day three and we already got a complaint from a mother saying the class was too rowdy or something. Lord. What were you expecting lady? It's a freakin' improv class, it's gonna get kinda noisy. You couldn't have maybe given it at least a week to let the kids settle in before you went bitching off. You probably signed your kid up for that class without even asking her if she wanted to be in it. That's part of what I hate about the program, there are all these classes which could be great, but a lot of the parents choose the classes for the kids which makes the kids miserable. I mean, if they kids had a choice do you REALLY think they'd be taking a class on public speaking? It's summer! Let the kid have some fun! Or how about sending your kid to math class for the summer? How horrible. Some kids might like it, but most of them would rather be running around outside or learning magic tricks or making clay pots or something.

So anyway, before I went on that long rant...the Who's Line Class...so Mr. Cohen pulled me out of Wizard camp to tell me about the complaint...which half pissed me off and half made me scared that he'd found out I spent all of class yesterday reading (there wasn't much else to do, I didn't want to but in on the teacher's lessons or whatever...plus I was lazy). Then when I got to the class the teacher started telling me about it, so I said I knew some games and then went to my old stand by of teaching them bus stop, which they seemed to enjoy and sat quietly (for the most part) through. I was just waiting for Liz to walk in and try and bust us not controlling the kids and then I'd give her a nice "Haha, in your face!" smile, but she never did. Damn. She only catches me doing bad stuff. Booo.