The title of this entry is not a line from an action movie*, but damn, it should be.

* as far as I know...

So, the first week of August, my family went on a Fantastique Bike Trip up Lake Champlain and into Canada. It was amazing. Biking through the Adirondacks was a tiny bit less amazing, if only because biking up and down mountains is tough. While we were biking, one family member would always be driving the van. ... and would be constantly on the lookout for bread.



I finished The Sun Also Rises and The Awakening, and I must now muscle my way through East of Eden.



I have many more tales to tell, so I'll post again sometime when I'm ready to talk with my words and not with my AppleWorks Paint skills.

I do have the photos from the past two days, and I'll post them with today's in the evening (probably).

Anyway, here is a comic from a few days ago. The adventures of babysitting/explaining what Nutella is to a four-year-old:



Second term is almost over, which means the first semester is almost done, which, for me, means... nothing. ._. None of my classes are changing. Unless! I can work it out with guidance so that I don't have to take gym again.* Mr. C thinks it's stupid, I think it's stupid, and even guidance thinks that, conceptually, it's stupid. So, hopefully, it will work out.

* I wouldn't be taking it again because I failed it. I would be taking it again because I didn't take gym at all last year, and we need four semesters worth of gym to graduate. It's complicated and silly.

On the way into school, my sister and I decided to go along these back trails, because we assumed the water from the rain would've dried up by now. Assumptions are apparently ALWAYS WRONG. There were still ponds of water along certain parts, but we managed to weave our bikes through them. I felt like some sort of person exploring the Amazon Rainforest, making my way through treacherous landscapes.

Of course, the real treachery was yet to come, because right when the trails end, there's a somewhat steep downhill, and railroad tracks. Up until now, the railroad tracks were perfectly fine for biking over, but for whatever reason, maybe because of the recent roadwork, the tracks were sticking a number of inches up from the road. They caught the side of my bike's front wheel, sending me flying off, and my bike to the ground. I was fine, though, but my bike had gotten all twisted up and now the gears don't work (this made biking the rest of the way to school somewhat difficult). I always talk about wanting to go off on adventures, but it seems I get in to plenty already (only I never see them as such at the time).

Also, two more days until April vacation makes me happy. School is driving me crazy. xP

All day, staring at the ceiling making friends with shadows on my wall. All night, hearing voices telling me that I should get some sleep because tomorrow might be good for something. Hold on — I'm feeling like I'm headed for a breakdown and I don't know why. I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell. I know, right now you can't tell. But stay awhile and maybe then you'll see a different side of me. I'm not crazy, I'm just a little impaired. I know, right now you don't care, but soon enough you're gonna think of me and how I used to be. Me, talking to myself in public, dodging glances on the train. I know, I know they've all been talking 'bout me. I can hear them whisper, and it makes me think there must be something wrong with me. Out of all the hours thinking, somehow, I've lost my mind. I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell. I know, right now you can't tell but stay awhile and maybe then you'll see a different side of me. I'm not crazy, I'm just a little impaired. I know right now you don't care, but soon enough you're gonna think of me and how I used to be...

Yesterday, I went off exploring (read as: out of town) with my sister and two friends. This time I actually remembered my camera so I got some photographs. I wonder if teenybuffalo will recognize any of the places?

Also, happy Holy Saturday and three-or-more-hour-long mass day!


I have no idea who put this here, but it caused all four of us to spontaneously photograph it, so that has to count for something, right?

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