Love is all you need? False. You need water and rations.

The past month I haven't been on blogger, beginning Monday, August 8th:
"Freshmen Etiquette Video" filming. The freshmen are getting more and more out of hand, each year having less and less common sense than the previous one. So we thought it would be a good idea to make a video outlining what should and should not be done, presented in a funny, cheesy way. Some skits include;
behave in the orchestra room (shown using a nerf gun war)
behave during concerts (shown using a rave in the auditorium)
and don't be late for class (shown using a kid getting chased by ninjas down the hallway)
Afterwards two of my friends and I went to a mall, ate dinner at Chilis, and listened to some old records.
Pictures for school IDs were the following day. Had another Wii party with some friends later in the day, where we celebrated two of their birthdays with this marvelous fail cake.

Thursday I finally got an ID that lets me legally watch R rated movies. I saw one of my friends there which was a pleasant surprise. That night I watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes with a friend I haven't seen most of the summer and one of her guy friends. He was so full of himself, oh my goodness. He did compliment me though. That was strange.
The next day my friend and I had a "music party" where we listened to old records for most of the night. Before we went to a record/book store and found a narration of the animated Lord of the Rings on a vinyl for $6. We also bought a record by Kansas. We pulled an all nighter and watched
A Hard Day's Night
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Breakfast Club
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Only about half of it though, I finally fell asleep at 7 and woke up at 9.
I picked up my schedule the next Monday. Mine is messed up. I get to fix that first thing tomorrow morning, hooray. I got put into the same art class I was complaining about last year. Went to a friends house afterwards and watched Tangled. Good day.
I can't remember anything from Tuesday and Wednesday, so I assume I did nothing.
Thursday, haircut. Basically like the one I had freshman year.

Then and now.

Went to IHOP at 11 that night, and the waiter that brought our food to us was high as a kite. He called me Judy for some strange reason. The only other group besides us was a large table of hooligans. "For our patience", someone who worked there gave us coupons. Upon further inspection we realised they had expired last month.
Orchestra end of summer pool party was yesterday, and it was a great way to end the summer.
School starts tomorrow, and I'm pretty excited for senior year. This time next year I'll be talking about the first day of college.
Finally, according to one of my friends, cats can solve all our problems.

"Why did I divide sin by tan? Just cos."

I found a photography app for my iPod called Decim8, which basically "destroys" your photos in a beautiful way. The one above is from my trip to San Francisco last year. You can check some other people have done out on Flickr by searching "Decim8", but here's some of my favorite I've done:

I've been reading High Fidelity by Nick Horny the past few nights. In the book, the protagonist and his coworkers all make lists; top 5 songs by an artist, top five movies, books, etc. I think that would be a cool idea to incorporate into a journal. I usually have to write everything down anyway, since my memory is absolute crap.

It has now been around 29 days in a row where the temperature has been over 100°. I probably won't leave my house next week; the high for Wednesday and Thursday is 108.

And to end this post, a quote from a conversation I had with one of my friends a few days ago.
Me: "I liked The Great Gatsby."
Him: "Lol me too! :D
I just wish Gatsby won.
And that Daisy wasn't such a gold diggin ho."

An absolutely perfect description.

"Do you want to hear a joke about sodium?" "Na."

There's only one month left of summer vacation. It's weird how fast the time has flown. But I've had many adventures with friends, and a good amount of time by myself. So it's been a great summer so far, but I'm also excited for school to start. The rest of the summer will hopefully be great as well.

My friends and I have been planning birthday parties for a few of our friends, which we're going to celebrate this week. One of my friends is turning 16. As a joke we might drive by Chuck E. Cheeses, then go out to lunch. When we go out with him we always tell the waiter it's his birthday, so when we celebrate his actual birthday it will be no different.

One of my friends from the Wii parties I've mentioned before also has his birthday this week. We'll probably just have another Wii party for him, and make him a cake or something. Maybe out of jello, I don't know. Maybe stick random fruit in that jello, because we're just evil. But most likely, I would like to do this:

I'm so excited for:
Orchestra next year. I've been thinking about how that will be. I'll finally be with my friends, since most of them moved up to varsity.
Free tea day at McAlisters on Thursday.
The parties mentioned above because my friends and I plan the best parties. Example.

Finally, here's a picture of some pictures I took Saturday: