Procrastinating...Yeah...

So school starts tomorrow. Bleh. And I'm only halfway done with my APAL summer reading, but instead of continuing to work on that, I'm going to blog. No real reason why, I still don't think anyone reads this. I just feel like blogging.

Our summer reading assignment is America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction by John Steinbeck. I actually don't really mind reading it, but I'm not a fan of writing about it. And I have the kind of memory that requires doing the writing immediately upon doing the reading, so I end up dreading the reading in addition to the writing. Unfortunately, that makes the entire project slow going. I'm sure I'll finish in time though...right? I'd better. I have to keep straight As and A-s this year in order to travel with the robotics team, so there really is no choice. No freaking pressure...

On that note I've been looking into becoming an emancipated minor. However there isn't a specific law that sets up a process for becoming one in Minnesota, which I find very unfortunate. I'm sure even if there was one, I wouldn't qualify. But still, I think there should be a law. Plenty of other states have one...But I suppose it doesn't really matter for me anyways so I shouldn't really care that much.

Speaking of robotics (end of second paragraph for those of you who are merely skimming this and didn't notice), our team has been at the Minnesota State Fair twice, and we'll be going again tomorrow which is very exciting! I went both times with the team and once with my family and may skip the family trip in the future. It's amazing to me how I can have a wonderful time with my friends wandering the fair not really doing much, and yet the minute my family is involved the whole thing becomes a horrible fiasco. Oh well...But the fair is amazing, and I can't wait to go back tomorrow!

I went to the Paper Route, Phantom Planet, Jack's Mannequin, Paramore concert at the fair last Tuesday and it was absolutely amazing!! Although it did get cold once the sun set, it was still really really good. I've been wishing ever since that I could go back and relive Tuesday from 7:30 am to 11 pm over and over again. But alas I am lacking a time machine, so that's really not possible. I will however keep hoping. If you do not know Paramore or Jack's Mannequin (my favorites from the concert and the real reason I went) you should immediately look them up. I conveniently have some of their music videos in my YouTube bar at the top of my blog. Go look. Now. I'll leave you to that and get back to my summer reading... :-/