I remember thinking in seventh grade, "This is so tough and not fun, I am never going to be nostalgic about any of *this* crap!" Now, a sophomore and safely away from seventh grade, I can think of a lot of things I loved about seventh grade. I guess there must've been a lot of bad stuff, but there was so much good stuff, and so many fun things. So I do feel nostalgic about it. Sorry, 12/13-year-old me. I wonder if I'll ever find myself feeling nostalgic about this year? ... I suppose I probably will.

What prompts this sudden bout of oh-those-were-the-days-only-not-really-but-still is the fact that I was at my friend's house the other night, who I befriended in 7th grade, and we were watching old shows and listening to old music, and it just made me remember all the stuff I really loved in middle school.

On an unrelated note, when I was babysitting on Thursday, the kids wanted to play soccer. So, the five-year-old is a big fan of Bejeweled (that game which is on the internet and ubiquitous on cell phones), so at one point while we were playing soccer he said, "Let's do different mode of soccer! Let's play... BEJEWELED SOCCER!" Which apparently meant whenever he scored a goal he went on to the next level, and sometimes he'd say, "No more moves!" which is what the video game says whenever you can't match any jewels together. Also, he'd sometimes say "A new high score!" or something like that. It was pretty funny.

Today, I took my last algebra II quiz of the year. YES. Now, I just have to survive the final! YESSSSSSSSSS.

With only seven days left of school (AWESOME), I'm trying to figure out what I should do with my summer. I think my top priority is to get a job/finish applying to OGSHS, followed up closely by intensive study of Japanese and Japan itself. But I also have to do my English summer work and my history summer work.

So, I'm probably going to be rather busy this summer. But you know? That's good, because if I don't keep busy, I languish. Or... become languid? There's a word/phrase I'm looking for, but I cannot find it. Ah, well.

Anyway, I'm going to go and remember things. Yes, remembering things can be an active activity at times, if you've got a lot to remember.

Or maybe I'll just read Native Son.