Conclusion: I hate first days of school.  They are never ever good.  Whether it be the first day of a new semester, or the first day of school of the new year... I hate them.  I think most of it has to do with the fact that I don't handle change very well.  I don't think I'll ever handle change very well... it's just something I'll have to work on I suppose.  However I think the only way to work on it is to go through it a lot, which I'm sure I will throughout my life, but I'm not looking forward too it.  Anyway, like most other first days of school in my life, this one sucked as well.  Everything was just a major dissapointment.  Given, I didn't want summer to end at all, this had to be the best summer of my entire life, but I was a little excited about everything starting up again.  And I was let down, yet again.  At least this year I woke up at the right time.  (Last year I overslept and woke up like 15 minutes before I had to leave... it was bad)  I woke up this year around 6:15 and got ready and everything and I thought I looked pretty nice but then I go to leave and my mom tells my that my jeans are too tight and low.  I give her "the look" and leave.  So before I even left the house I was already in a bad mood.  I picked up Mihok and got to school just in time to get the last parking space in the cafetorium parking lot.  Better than parking in the church I guess.  So we go to homeroom with Mr. Mconhie to assign lockers and stuff and he assigns me one in the main hallway, which would have been perfect, but it was already taken.  So he assigns me one of the ones that was left, which was all the way at the end of the TV hallway and it had no handle.  He said that's all that was left.  So I have no locker.  That sucks, especially since we're not allowed to carry bookbags to class or coats or anything.  So I end up having to share with Amber and Mihok, 3 people to one locker- a little cramped.  After the locker situation was taken care of, I went to first period Adv. Social Studies with Sherry.  I hate that class.  Sherry doesn't teach at all, and we have a lot of class debates that are worth some random percentage of our grade and I can't debate.  I really don't like voicing opinions to people I'm not familiar with.  Plus my class doesn't talk at all, except Terry, so that will make it real interesting.  Plus I heard from some seniors that her tests are impossible and with me taking a tech program.. I need an A in this class to graduate with honors.  After Sherry, I go to Moluse for Adv. English 11, second period.  That class wasn't too bad, I have lots of friends in it with me.  And Moluse is an amazing teacher who happens to love theatre and theatre kids so it shouldn't be too bad.  I just have to keep up with the reading.  I have Amber, Mihok, Candace, Amanda, Terry, Kayla, and Alison Marty in that class, so it should be fun.  Except Mrs. Moluse kept calling me Stephanie. That was kind of dissapointing cuz I thought she'd know me, but I'm sure she'll get it sooner or later.   After Moluse came another dissapointment.  Lunch.  Amber, Mandi, Mihok and I tried to keep the theatre kid table going from last year, without all the graduated seniors, but it didn't really work.  So it ended up being just the 4 of us, and Amy with these other 3 girls that I don't really know.  Real dissapointing.  After lunch was study hall, and then choir which was not nearly the same as last years Women's Chorus.  I miss my seniors like crazy :( 
Then finally came TV.  Sure, I was a little nervous, but for the most part I had been excited for this all summer.  Mr. Lowrie talked the whole classtime about how he wants us to become close and stuff.  But I honestly, at the time, couldn't see that ever happening.  These are kids that I had never associated myself with before, and I'm not sure they're that excited about associating themselves with me.  I dunno, real nervewracking.  I hope I didn't make a mistake by taking this class.  We'll be together for 3 periods for 2 years, that's a LOT of time.  I hope they like me.  Then Mr. Lowrie tells us we have to give this little 20 second speech in front the camera already on Friday, and then we have to give our first two minute speech in front of the class on Tuesday.  I was soo nervous.  Our 2 minute speech had to be on something important to us in our lives, and I wasn't sure I was ready to open myself up like that to these people that I barely knew.  So overall, I was scared.   Then to top it all off, after school I had to go and play golf and I had to of played the worst game ever.  I was so upset that, I'll admit it, I cried when I got home.  I cried so much, that I couldn't even stay at the house, so I left to go pick up some school supplies I was gonna need.  When I came home my mom was all mad at me cuz I wouldn't tell her what was wrong.  Honestly, I just didn't want to talk about it.  Usually, when I'm that upset I just want to be left alone.  I finally ended up talking to her late at night and then went to bed.  I hate first days of school. 
   However, second days of school, are usually a lot better.  And this one was.  I woke up thinking, "Nothing could possible be as bad as yesterday, so todays gonna be a good day."  I even ate a popsicle before I left, because you know popsicles always put me in a good mood.  Everything turned out better.  We went to the library in Sherry's class, so Amber and I just sat there and talked about our TV speeches.  Moluse was just like the day before, not too bad.  Lunch was also better, Kaylin and Steve joined the table and Becky sat at the table right behind me.  Choir still kinda sucked, but it happens.  TV actually turned out pretty good.  We all gave our little speeches and I was the very last person to go.  Really nervewracking, but it turned out ok.  Then we played the toilet paper game where however many pieces you took you had to tell that many things about yourself.  I took like 6 so I didn't have to talk for too long.  I found out some stuff about people I would have never guessed and I felt a lot better about them. Maybe it will work out for the best after all, I mean, everything happens for a reason, right?  After school I drove Amber, Kaylin, Guiliana, and Becky home and then went to Becky's house.  We ate pizza and these really gross chili fries and then Leila came over and we went to the Ak vs. Amherst football game at AK.  It was fun.  Afterwards I came home and was actually gonna blog that night, but just didn't feel like it.  Which is now resulting in yet another super long entry, sorry guys.
   Saturday was the day of the Annual Theatre Co. Picnic and Pool Party and this year it was at my house.  So I woke up kind of early so I could help my mom clean the house and stuff to get ready for everyone to come at 6.  It was such a nice day all day, until around 5 when the council came to help set up and it started to thunderstorm.  Mike Giele came first, and he was the only one here for like 10 minutes.  It was kinda cool though cuz I never really get to talk to Mike one on one so it was cool.  He's a cool kid.  Then the rest of the council came and people started showing up around 6:15.  It was really raining, and thunderstorming but Sara, Mihok, Jordan, Donie, and I played outside in the rain anyway and it was fun.  My mom wasn't too happy about that, especially since Sara has mono, but it was a blast.  Unfortunatly the thunderstorm resulted in a lot of people not showing up, which was dissapointing, but a lot of freshman came and they're basically the main reason for the picnic so that was good.  The rain stopped around 7:30 and a lot of people swam and there was tons of food.  Everyone left around 9:30 or 10 except Amber, Rania, Mandi, Mihok, Lex, and Melissa stayed and we swam at night.  It was cool.  Finally around midnight, Rania, Mandi, Mihok and I went to Lex's house and stayed the night there for her birthday.  We tried to watch the Bourne Supremecy but we fell asleep.  It was overall a pretty good Saturday. 
   I left pretty early on Sunday to come home and shower and stuff before going to Canton to see the Lost & Found concert with Sara.  It was amazing.  Lost & Found is a Lutheran group consisting of 2 guys playing the guitar and keyboard.  Sara and I danced in the front row and we were definitely the cool kids of the concert.  Lost & Found really inspired me, and I was really glad I went.  Thanks a lot for taking me Sara, I love you girl!  On the way home from the concert, Sara and I read the prologue to "Acceptable Risk" for English class and did our questions together.  I was glad we did cuz otherwise I probably wouldn't have understood it.  Then I went to bed.  Short Sunday, but awesome.  Last weekend was good.  It reminded me a lot of summer... I really miss summer.
   Well, to save time and space, this whole week was just kind of boring.  Nothing super exciting happened, and nothing really depressing.  Just a boring week of school.  It felt like it lasted forever though.  Like the longest week of my life!  Wednesday was Mihok's birthday... so happy birthday Megs!! Other than that, nothing out of the ordinary.  Schools going ok I suppose.  I gave my speech about Gertie on Wednesday.  I thought it was a really good speech, the TV kids were a tough crowd though.  They didn't really laugh out loud at anything, I think they just didn't really get it.  They're not theatre kids... it's ok.  Hopefully future speeches will go better for me.  I was super glad when it was over though, I was so nervous for it.  Oh yea, and on Thursday we had our first TV day.  We actually all had jobs and produced the news just like the senior class did in the morning.  It was awesome.  I love being in the control room the most.  I like all that technical stuff.  My favorite job was probably the technical director.  It was awesome.  I loved it.  I can't wait til senior year when we actually get to do the news for the school.  Exciting stuff... lemme tell ya.  Then on Friday we watched the "Year in Review" DVD in TV for the class of 2004.  It was so awesome.  I hope our class gets as close as that class did.  So that was pretty much my week.  Amber and I did lots of studying, especially learning the Preamble to the Constitution (through School House Rock of course!) and I'm really glad she's in all my classes.  It makes it a lot easier to get through the day.
   Another reason why I basically just skipped this whole week was because I couldn't wait to get to this weekend.  This weekend was amazing.  I'm gonna have great stories to tell in TV on Tuesday!  It all started on Friday after school I took Mihok and Kaylin home and then Becky, Birdie and I drove out to the mall to buy Catey her birthday present.  (We also bought elmo cookies which was exciting cuz I love elmo cookies!)  After walking around the mall for an hour waiting for Leila and Sam to meet us there, we finally decided to buy Catey stuff to treat her like a queen.  So we bought her a white boa, gloves, a tiara, bracelets, a wand, and then a jewelry box and a picture frame.  It was cute.  After the mall we all went back to Becky's to get ready for the football game and eat her mom's homemade pizza.  The pizza was so amazing... her mom's so cute.  I met Becky's friend Kristen (for like the third time... lol) and she seemed pretty cool.  We all got ready and then went to the game.   The game was fun.  I don't remember whether we won or lost because I really didn't pay much attention to the actual game.  Except maybe some of the players... haha ;)  *Right, my sexy mexican matt?!?!*  Anyway, there were tons of people I knew there... and a lot of college kids came back for it, so that was exciting.  Tony came halfway through the game... so he could get in free... and I hung out with him a lot.  I felt really bad though cuz I came with Becky and Leila and ended up leaving with Tony and Mihok and Rania.  I hope they didn't mind :/  Well we went to Rania's house for a bonfire with Alexis, Jake, Amber, Mandi, and Cerny!! I was so happy Cerny came... I love that kid... and I miss him so much.  The bonfire was fun... even though I spent half of it in my car at Taco Bell with Jake and Alexis.  It was quite a fun ride though, Jake's hilarious, I can't believe I used to not like the kid at all, and now we're pretty good friends.  He's cool.  After our half hour Taco Bell run we went back to Rania's and I had to leave cuz my stupid curfew is at 12.  :(  It was a great night... I have the best friends.
   Saturday was the best day ever.  It was the day of Catey's birthday party.  I woke up around 10:30 and showered and packed and stuff then left for Catey's house.  Once I got to Catey's, Leila, Catey, Sam, Becky, and I loaded up in Lei's car and drove to Headquarters for our Spa day.  It was wonderful.  We all got manicures, facials, and our makeup done.  We looked so hott when we were done!  The facial was the most amazing part.  I got to put on the spa shoes and the cool white bathrobe and lay down on the big comfy bed while she massaged my face and shoulders for a half hour.  It was amazing!!  I love Catey!! After the spa we went back to Catey's house and got dressed up and went to Presti's for dinner.  The food was really good.... we ordered so much of it though but it was great.  They brought out a cake for Catey and everything... it was really nice.  Then we went back to Catey's for the night and watched "The Prince and Me" and "Butterfly Effect".  I tried to teach them how to play MOW but it didn't work too well... lol.. and we stayed up talking for ever.  We ate a whole bunch of food at like 1 am and then everyone fell asleep except me and Leila so we just kind of hung around until 3:30 when we dozed off.  What a great night.. and day.  I love my golf girls.  I wish they would all do theatre so I could see them more often when golf ends.  Thanks for a great Saturday ladies... I love you to death.
   Sunday morning I left Catey's around 11:30 and came home and showered and stuff.  Then I went to pick up Sara around 2 and we drove out to her church in Vermillion to help paint their new trailer.  It was fun.  We spent about 2 hours there... and Sara and I just painted boards outside and talked and talked for the whole time.  It was great.  I love talking to Sara.  I don't get to do that very often anymore, cuz she's not in any of my classe and theatre hasn't started yet, so I miss her.  Then we went inside her church and she gave me a tour and we sat in the church and talked for a while.  It was cool.  Her church is so tiny and cute.  She seems like she really gets a lot of out the services too.  I wish I got as much out of church as she does.  I really don't like St. Joe's.  Maybe some day I'll switch.  I dunno.  Anyway, we eventually left after the intern pastor told us he needed to lock up and I drove her home.  I came home for like 15 minutes then went back to pick Sara up so she could stay the night at my house.  We stopped at Drug Mart and Sara bought some stuff (including popsicles!!! haha)  and then we came home and ordered pizza.  After picking it up, Amber and Mihok came over too and we watched the Trading Spaces marathon thing.  Mihok left her cell phone at Panera so since Amber got her licence last weekend, we all got in Amber's car and drove to Panera to pick it up.  We then decided to go "Backwards Trick-or-Treating" and went to some of our friends' houses to give them popsicles. It was great.  We got some strange reactions... and some really good ones.  It was fun.  We went to Ryan's house, the Melick's, the Marty's, Val's, Pat's, and David's.  I loved it.  If someone randomly showed up at my house with a popsicle I know I would be excited... but that's just me.  We came back to my house and watched the Extreme Makeover show and then put in "Big Fish".  Amber, Mihok, Sara, and my mom said it was really good, but I wouldn't know because I fell asleep within like 10 minutes.  I was exhausted from the night before, sorry girls.  Amber and Mihok left around 12:30 and Sara and I came upstairs and went to bed.  Sara should sleep over more often when we're both not exhausted, I love Sara and spending time with her. 
   So this morning (Monday morning) we woke up at 8 so I could drive Sara to cross country practice then I came home and slept til 12.  Then I got up and went downstairs to watch Blue Crush, cuz I just found out that we have this new "On Demand" cable thing where we get all these new movies for free and it's super awesome.  I mean, it's not even like those crappy movies that no one's over heard of... they're good movies.  I haven't actually changed out of my pajamas all day, I've just been a bum, either eating, talking on the phone, or typing up this long blog all day.  It was a nice relaxing day.  Tony invited me over his house for a bonfire tonight, but I don't think I'm gonna go.  I really just need to go to bed early... I have school tomorrow :(  I really don't wanna go.  I really don't enjoy it.  I miss summer so much.  Speaking of missing things... I got another email from Alison the other day.  That was exciting.  I sat with her mom and sister for a little bit at the football game and she thanked me for that cuz they miss me.  I miss them too, they're like my second family.  Alison's sister wants to join theatre, and that would be super exciting.  I hope she does.  If I can't have Alison there, at least I'll have one Kernohan there with me.  I miss Alison.  I really hope I get to go to Australia to visit her next summer.  I know I say this a lot, but you have no idea how much the girl means to me.  I miss her more than anything, maybe even more than my summer... however it's a close one.. lol.  Alright, I think this is long enough.  This could of ended up being a really long entry considering I really haven't blogged since before the first day of school, and I've already been in 7 days of school, but I don't think it was too bad.  Definitley not as long as my last entry.  Hopefully I can be better about it.  I'll try... no promises though.  I love you all and wish you sweet dreams.  Comment please.

Random confession- I love thunderstorms... especially at night.