Well, today I took my first concrete step in the college application process…
I started the online application to the University of Chicago. It has an excellent academic reputation, is in the nice part of an interesting city, and is pretty close to my mom’s family.
It was hard to take this first step; I’m shedding my childhood. Time to start fulfilling my responsibility to the universe at large.
I miss the simplicity of kindergarten 
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Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am out of Nutella and will remain so until I return from Kansas on the 21st. It’s gone. Just like that. Cold turkey, no Nutella. What will I do without my Nutella fix? Alas, cruel world! How bleak my life will be without that creamy chocolatey goodness!
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A PETA protest outside a KFC drew extra customers to the restaurant. I think a lot of the problem was chosing Logan, Utah as the site of the protest; it seems to me that they could have picked a location in a more sympathetic area.
My favorite quote: ” ‘’I think there’s a place in this world for all of God’s creations … right next to the mashed potatoes,’’ said Rusty Smith, a KFC customer who sat on a patch of grass outside the restaurant with a group of co-workers, watching the protest.” Ouch.
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The senior class had a car wash on Saturday. Of course, I participated; I have a close friend who’s on the ASB. It was in the 80s that day, so I wore my bikini top, as did most of the girls there.
These two possibly drunk customers told Travis, our class president, that they’d only pay if only girls washed their old, rusty Cadillac. Without asking us, he agreed. (Hence the title) It was pretty gross; they were leering at us through the windshield the whole time, and their car was rusting apart in our hands. As they handed Nicole the well-earned money, they said “You didn’t do none of the work, but you sure woulda looked good doing it!” And if that wasn’t bad enough, they told my friend and I as they were leaving to “remember babes, we’re your daddies in the caddy!” I am thoroughly scarred.
It’s the first day of August!
Noooooooo! I have to face up to the reality that my summer will soon be over… and then, my senior year and I’ll turn 18 and be an adult.
I’m not old enough to be this old!
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Today, I got to thinking about myself and who I am. I realized that I’ve changed a lot since the beginning of my junior year, and even more since middle school. I’ve lost some innocence, but have gained self-confidence and common sense. I’m not the same girl I was even at the beginning of the summer.
I think I’m ok with that. I’m more comfortable with myself than I have been in years; I’ve grown into my body. I like myself more now than I ever have. It’s weird how you mature in leaps and bounds and not as a gradual process. Looking back, I think there are certain events that mark some of the changes, not that I recognized it at the time.
There is a special place in hell for those who invented comment spam and those peddling Blackjack Tournaments should be at the front of the queue to get in.
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This is so weird. Apparently our cats are giving us diseases. Kinda creepy, really… And I probably already have it, having grown up with cats in the house.
Oh well. Since I’m a girl, that just means I’ll end up a “sex kitten”.
There’s always a silver lining.
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I just got back from one of those college info sessions that pretty much everyone my age has experienced. I know that there isn’t really any guarantee of getting admitted to any Ivy League school, so I shouldn’t get too attached to the idea of attending any of them. However, I just have to say it; I wanna go to Yale! *sniff*
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