What I've been learning

About books and dating in general:

• It’s okay to not finish a book series that you stopped being interested in
• Update your reading list
• There aren't enough diverse books available at bookstores or libraries, specifically in the YA section.
• Don't date anyone who doesn't read books for fun. (More than two times a year)
• Don't date anyone who doesn't have books in their house
• Don't date anyone who isn't prepared in school, because it can spread to other areas of their life.
• Don't date anyone who doesn't identify as a feminist.

About myself:

• I'm an insomniac
• It takes forever for me to get to sleep because I just keep thinking, thinking, thinking.
• When trying to get to sleep, just play a lot of American Authors songs.
• However, once I'm asleep, I can stay asleep and not wake up till it’s four in the afternoon.
• I miss a dog I used to have more than I miss my ex.
• I'm starting to identify as a cisgendered female, who considers herself heteroromantic, gray asexual.
• One of the reasons why I had a boyfriend was because I didn't want to be one of the few people still alone. It was stupid, because being single isn't that bad.
• I am capable of practicing a bit of French every day.
• I like writing lists. 

And now the weather:

Best Day Of My Life by American Authors

- Stacy N.

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A random summer list

[ ] Get my bike fixed

[ ] Get a doughnut from that one grocery store that has really good doughnuts 

[ ] Sign up for scholarships

[ ] Research colleges

[ ] Read books

[ ] Go back to my hometown library

[ ] Start going to sleep around 11:30 

[ ] Practice driving

[ ] Have a movie night

[ ] Go see an improv show

[ ] Say hi to some friends that I haven't talked to in a while

[ ] Blog more often

[ ] List one good thing about each day

[ ] Write back to pen pals
[ ] Write another letter to myself
[ ] Have fun

And now the weather:

Luck by American Authors

- Stacy N.

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From junior year to senior year with a lot of random things in between

Haven't you heard that I'm gonna be okay

A random list of things that has been happening lately:

• AP testing
• Finals
• School elections
• Assemblies
• Going to prom
• Playing kickball in calculus class 
• Writing a letter to a future calculus student
• Calculus music video
• Filming and editing for said music video.
• Getting tired of the song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by the Beatles
• Seeing some of my friends that I haven't seen in a while
• Counting grass blades for science
• Playing with fire, again for science
• Tie dying a shirt
• Listening to music
• Staying up late
• Being tired
• Gently knocking my head against the wall (metaphorically of course)
• Researching whatever interests me
• Trying to write back to pen pals
• Going to see Body Worlds: Animal Inside Out, and being very intrigued by it
• Breaking up 
• Trying to get over said break up
• Watching a lot of Studio C
• Writing various things
• Reading books like The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien, The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer, and Emma by Jane Austen
• Watching movies at various times throughout the month of May and June. Such movies include 10 Things I Hate About You, Cinderella Man, a documentary about Martin Luther King Jr., Stand and Deliver, The Dark Knight, Muppets Most Wanted, Blended, Newsies, Remember the Titans, Avengers, Maleficent, The Amazing Spider-Man (one and two), and an American Tail.
• Getting random songs stuck in my head like Thrift Shop by Macklemore, Working in the Coal Mine from the Muppets Most Wanted movie, etc.
• Laughing, smiling, feeling hurt, you know the usual human stuff.
• Having my older sister drag me to two of her summer college classes
• Eating at various restaurants like Café Trang, another Vietnamese restaurant, Napoleon Pizza, Noodles & Company
• Going to Barnes and Noble and getting The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other classic novels by Jules Verne
• Eating a bit too much sugar
• Making beef stew
• Going onto tumblr a one too many times
• Thinking about anything and everything with uncertain end results
• Going to the yearbook stomp to get my yearbook
• Feeling scared because I’m going to be a senior the next time school rolls around
• Feeling the disappointment of those around me.
• Talking to various people on the phone
• Surviving the school year
• Trying to survive the heat that comes from late spring/summer days that Utah likes to bring
• Missing the Pacific Ocean
• Going to church picnics and eating picnic-y food
• Donating money to help a four-year-old with cancer
• Procrastinating on stuff as usual
• Wanting to get out of the state for the summer
• Wanting, trying, attempting to stop thinking about my ex. And it’s kind of working.
• Feeling a bit sad because people I know are graduating this year.
• Playing the game 2048 again and again
• Trying to not use up all the data on my phone
• Feeling a bit confused as to what I really want.
• Wondering why Mother Nature couldn’t have thought of a better congrats, you're not pregnant gift.
• Exercising and feeling better afterwards

And now the weather

So Yesterday by Hilary Duff

- Stacy N.

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