"Do you realize? That everyone you know,someday, will die? And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know you realize that life moves fast, it's hard to make the good things last, You realize the sun doesn't go down, it's just an illusion caused by the world, spinning 'round."

"Do you realize? That happiness makes you cry?"

I was crying last night. because of happinness. only for like 5 seconds. But it was SO funny. I just had to bring up those watering cans didn't I?

Last night was one of the best nights I've had in SO long. Early on I had a nice conversation with Duncan on the hammock about movies and cooking and other stuff, then I swam and Kim and Des and I laughed and talked. I love realizing how close I've become with some friends. When I realize that I can do ANYTHING around them. I can do things I would only do in the presence of the siblings and the nieghbours in front of Des, and Kim and other super close amazing friends, it makes me really extremely happy, because I'm that close with them. That I can do anything and I know that they'll love me no matter what.

Then later, Megan, Duncan, Dave and I sat in Megan's treehouse and talked about basically sex, brugs and rock and roll. Mostly sex and drugs. And I came to really respect everyone's morals and decisions because there was such good reasoning for everything and it was quite amazing to hear all their opinions because they all have such DIFFERENT views and morals, only none of them are to any extreme and none of them are unbendable to the point that they lose respect for someone else for something... I want to say trivial, but it's definitely not trivial. It's just something that they've done. This is making a lot less sense than I had hoped it would, but basically I really REALLY missed talking to people and I actually learned a lot about them all.

Leslie and Catty picked me up and gave me an iced cap, then we drove down Grandview and sang a bunch of songs from "Leslie Awesomer" one of the best Leslie made CD's EVER, then we went to Catty's place and played S'Witches and Head of the Class. Which was quite fantastic. It was fun trying to guess things about American History.

Unfortunately it made me remember that I REALLY REALLY want to take another History or Social Sciences course next year, but I can't even think of ANY one class that I could switch it for. I have to take English, Math and French. I wan't to take Chem and Bio. Daddy's making me take Physics, and the thing is I'm kind of interested to see how I'd do in it. It was my best unit of the four this science semester, and also was somewhat interesting I hate to say. There is no way in HELL that I wouldn't take Drama. It just wouldn't happen EVER. And I'm quite excited to take Anthro/Etc. because it just seems like it will be super interesting. Why can't we take NINE classes??

Des's update/Rant was really interesting. I enjoyed it a lot. It made me think. But more on that later.

Oh and I haven't really done anything. Played a LOT of bridge, done a lot of sleeping over at the Gouin's house, played a lot of games. Was cottaging most of last week with the family minus Leslie (except the one day she and catty came up and we taught them bridge... CAN YOU SAY ADDICTS?) Before that, went to Andy's land and had a great time with the cousins and some other of Andy's friends. It was grand. I really and truly love family.



(Roughly) in the order I read them:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 3/5 stars: It was good, interesting, cool to read, I was slightly disappointed by the (relatively) happy ending. It just didn't seem like a book that should have a happy ending. Not what I would call a classic, but I definitely liked it. Not passionate about it though.

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler 2.5/5 stars: Decently interesting. I think that it was a GOOD book, but I just couldn't really relate to much of the story. Duddy's whole goal was to get land, and he was willing to sacrifice everything else in his life to get it. He also really just wanted a reputation. I guess I just want more from life and so I couldn't understand why he was throwing everything else and refusing to get close with anyone who tried to become his close friend. It was just frustrating.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom 4.5/5 stars: A super quick read, I got through it in less than two hours, but a really great book. A super-cool concept, one that you wouldn't really consider. It was a breath of fresh air after Duddy Kravitz. SO interesting and emotional and amazing. I had forgotten what it was like to really ENJOY a book rather than just know that it's a good book and not really enjoy it. Definitely one I'd read again.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling 5/5 stars: Don't forget that this is just my opinion, but I absolutely LOVED this book. I'm fairly sure it was my favourite out of all the Harry Potters. SO good. One of the best things is that Harry is no longer ANGRY like he was all of the fifth book. I think these books are becoming less and less of kids books, (which makes sense considering they're growing up) but there was a lot more character development, a lot more emotion... this was the only one that brought me close to tears. It really leaves you hanging but everything is finally coming together, I can't wait for the seventh book.

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes 4.5/5 stars: Fantastic. Another super-creative concept, really really interesting, I couldn't put it down. Really good at evoking emotion in the reader. Wow, I was almost sobbing at the end. So cool the way you can follow Charlie's entire process of becoming smart, and then it all deteriorating. The spelling mistakes, or lack there-of help a lot to follow the process too. Just an overall amazing book.

Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid 3.5/5 stars: Quick read, interesting sort of "juicy" read, but not in the ChickLit kind of way. Interesting, but not unlike Duddy Kravitz in that it didn't really evoke much real emotion from me. It's not that I couldn't relate, I just don't think it was well enough written for me to get into that much.

xxxx - moni