i haven't updated this journal in almost two years.

that is scary.

especially considering that in two years, on a scale of one to ten, my sex life is still a negative.

but that is not the issue at hand here.

since the aptly titled "give me my money back, you bitch," i have done the following:

1) gotten together with a boy who eventually left me to go into the priesthood
2) bought my first digital slr, used it a lot less than i probably should
3) gone to china with my grandmother
3) decided i was no longer going to be "always eponine, never cosette" and get myself a ~*man*~
4) realized that i am definitely not the serious dating type
5) increased my itunes library to over 5,000 songs - a monumental accomplishment
6) finally bought myself a newfangled mp3 player, which i have named julio
7) applied and been accepted to michigan state university, where i will attend next fall for journalism and possibly chinese (?), because i would really like to go back, because i am having recurring dreams about just that and it is beginning to get rather tedious
8) taken over the school newspaper with my freshman year ex-boyfriend; we make a rather odd pair of editors because he's very good at layout whilst i am very good at writing, and neither of us have very good people skills
9) passed calculus (GO SELF)
10) watched (at least) 146 new movies
11) won second place in the state for a news story, first for a review of the 1950s b-movie "teenagers from outer space"
12) witnessed my sister turn into a rather tarty and stereotypically obnoxiously trite (redundant, much?) feminine preteen
13) had a summer romance
14) compiled an ongoing list of "nouns i'd like to verb before i die," any and all suggestions are welcome but i do not really feel like climbing mount kilimanjaro, okay

and a lot of other things, some of which i cannot post here for... well, laziness' sake.

some things never do change.