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To Read: Blue Lily, Lily Blue -  M. Steifvater. Read by 7/5. Goal of reading 6/28-6/29 The Raven King - M. Steifvater. Read by 7/5/18. Goal of reading 6/29-6/30 Ash - M. Lo. Read by 7/19. Goal of reading 7/1-7/2 Huntress - M. Lo. Read by 7/19. Goal of reading 7/3-7/5 Spinning - T. Walden. Read by 7/19. Goal of reading 7/6-7/7 Aftercare Instructions - B. Pipkin. Read by ??. Goal of reading 7/9-?? To Do: Analyze character relationships for an essay on The Raven Cycle Work clothes Think about packing for Tupper Sleep, if I accomplish the scheduled reading Update "Books to Buy" and "Books to Read" lists as I read those Post about those books as I read them Post about Goodbye Days Post about The Dream Thieves   or just wait to post about The Raven Cycle as a whole? But I mean I already ranted about TRB so it's only fair Post those cute pics of C & me on insta (6/29) Find a cute yellow sundress Fill 14 goat food containers for dad while I...

When I read The Scorpio Races  I reached the conclusion that Elizabeth is usually right, and also that Maggie Stiefvater is a good author. The obvious next steps were: Put aside Jeff Zentner's Goodbye Days . Search the house for that copy of The Raven Boys   that I bought at a yard sale a year ago and never got around to reading. Read it all in one day. Guys, it's taking me so much strength to avoid typing in all caps rigHT NOW OH NO HERE IT IS. THIS. BOOK. IS. SO. GOOD. I'M DOING THAT THING WHERE MY HANDS GO UP AND DOWN LIKE I'M TRYING TO FLY. Like, I'm not really a fantasy fan, but? Maggie has me FULLY ADDICTED TO THIS MAGIC PLOT AND ALSO (whisper voice) there's a gay pun SO YEAH BASICALLY SHE'S REALLY TALENTED AND I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT HER BOOKS  Things I am very much in love with at the moment: Maggie's beautiful fictional boys Maggie's beautiful fictional female main character Maggie's beautiful fictional...

Sylvia and I took a day trip over to Tupper. The goal was to get my working papers sorted out, and so we did that and then explored around The Wild Center for a bit. (Or should I say, my place of employment?) I forgot the magic that The Wild Center has when you haven't grown up there, how it feels to not know what's around each corner, to not know how it was created. The museum must feel just like a museum and not a home, to so many people, but it's weird for me to think of it as a place you stop in once to never return. The Wild Center feels like a safe spot where I know what happens and why, a place where I know where every path leads, a place where I've learned so much of what I know, a key part in making me who I am. And more importantly, it has wifi. I'm still working out whether I can technically get people in for free but I managed it today, so? Yes? After we finished (ran out of time. It truly is a place that you can never finish.), we head...

My tech week read was M. Steifvater's The Scorpio Races , which was perfect, because it kept me hooked enough to be able to read backstage and ignore all the madness, but not hooked enough to miss my cue. Maggie is a talented enough author to make me like horses, apparently. That's pretty impressive. They're actually sort of human eating horses, called Capaill Uisce , which makes them a lot more likable in my opinion, but still. I'm not a horse person. Also, Steifvater is good enough to make me enjoy the unnecessary hetero relationship. Wow. So yeah! Pretty good book! Ordinary enough for me to not need to buy it, but good enough for me to not return it to the library right away. I think the lesson here is that I should've listened to Elizabeth's book suggestions a long time ago, because Elizabeth is usually right.

Look in the mirror.  Frown. Grab some coconut oil, and coat your face in a thick layer of it. Seriously. Smear it on. Let it sink into your skin. Eat it. Shove it up your nose. Pour it in your eye sockets. Once you are successfully coated in coconut oil, take about 17 weird little cotton circle things and  GET SCRUBBING but gently cause ouch skin is sensitive You'll probably be coated in a thick enough layer of foundation/blush/other makeup stuff that I don't know the words for, that you might need to use more coconut oil.  And more weird little cotton circle things. Once you've got the majority of the gunk on your face off, it's time for EYES. This is actually the worst. thing. ever.  Okay, eye shadow is pretty easy to get off, actually. Coconut oil all over your eyelids. Wipe it off GENTLY with the weird little cotton circle things. Now, mascara.  You've probably used that intensely waterproof stuff, because sweat.  Unfortunately, that i...

These pretty pages will be sneaking into the Coop tomorrow! Complete with nice words for the teachers written by yours truly.

It's currently too late, and I'm sitting outside on the steps behind Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center. The stars are out tonight, and there's a wisp of cloud framing the moon quite nicely. I quite love the sky. Anyways. I thought I didn't want to do this show again, and honestly, I don't. We're in a really nice theater, except backstage is small, so there's 35 dancers packed inside the tiny greenroom with just 2 dressing rooms. The boys just get a bathroom to change in. There's a shower in there. It's weird. We're basically living like family, to the point where a cast member asked me if stress pooping was a thing. 98% of this cast has seen me without a shirt on. I don't even really know some of these people! Mia has decided to leave the emergency exit open, because the air conditioning can't keep up with 45 sweaty bodies. Tonight I sat outside in costume, and read M. Steifvater's The Scorpio Races.  The sun was...

It's the middle of Tech Week , so I don't really have time to read, but I managed to finish Emergency Contact by M. H. K. Choi anyway, because it's extremely overdue. This book is literally just Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl. No joke. Rainbow Rowell actually blurbed it ("blurbed" is totally a word, right?), and I can see why she liked it- it's basically just her own book. The main character, Penny, is a bit of a sort of awkward, introverted nerd, but still decently pretty. She's heading off into her freshman year of college. Her roommate and her roommate's bestfriend are both pretty and extroverted and fond of pushing Penny into social situations. Penny meets a guy. They text a lot. And also, she has a broken relationship with her mother and is writing a big thing because she is at college to be a writer. So yeah, it's just pretty much Fangirl . I was a little bit disappointed about the heterosexualness, because while Fangirl had a wonder...

Five years ago I came to the coop as a 4th grader. I was the youngest, and definitely the baby of the group. The older girls braided my hair, and I constantly had somebody who was willing to read aloud to me, or give me a piggyback ride. Back then, the coop had only one teacher, Julia Skonicki, and she taught everything. The barn was an amazing place to have a school, and I remember making forts in the woods, baking pie in the oven, and dropping various pieces of fruit (and occasionally raw eggs) off of the hay loft. Four years ago I was a 5th grader! Pretty much nothing had changed, except there were a few more students, and some new teachers! We had a new spanish teacher, a science teacher, and an art teacher. I ran into that spanish teacher the other day, and she seemed quite astonished at the fact that I’m going to high school. Three years ago I was in 6th grade. This was the year where all the older girls had left, and I was now the oldest girl. It was a big change to go from ...