Summer

I love summer.  It makes me feel so free, I can wake up when I want, walk around barefoot, eat whatever I want, whenever I want, I can lie in the sun if I want, and swim in my pool.  Summer is freedom of expression, hot days filled with melting ice cream and not caring what you look like.  Summer is blue skies, and green grass, the smell of barbecues and freshly mown lawns.  I love summer. 

“What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”
- Willa Sibert Cather

Graduation

I'm graduating from high school in 2 days... And the thought totally freaks me out.  Am I really ready for the 'real world'? I've spent my entire life in Christian schooling, I'm graduating with most of the same people I graduated elementary with.  The world used to seem so small and safe when I was in high school and now it just seems too large and scary.  I'm freaked out about university, and even more so for what comes after that.  I'm only seventeen and life just seems to be moving to fast.  How am I supposed to support myself? I want to be a writer but what if no one likes my writing? I'm going to miss my dysfunctional class of crazy teenagers, my school teachers who cared about my success and understood my procrastination skills, I'll even miss my bus rides to and from school.  I just want to freeze time and stay in this moment forever, this is where I'm comfortable, this is where I want to stay; but I can't.  I'm scared and I just want to run away.

TheRunaway

Twitter

Twits or

Tweets

I've have decided that all those tweeters and twits, you decide which one you are, waste all too much time documenting the small and insignificant parts of their day on Twitter. I mean I know it's supposed to connect you to the rest of the world, but honestly are you really connecting with anyone? What you and the other 15,000 million people and you're supposed to feel special? Do people really spend their time reading what Robert Pattison ate for lunch? Do they wait for Brad Pitt to say goodnight before turning out their lights? Did I honestly just spent an hour wasting my time reading these pointless bits of fluff?  I guess if you have time to waste then go ahead, read away! To the rest of the world, imagine what we could do if: the people who tweeted stopped tweeting every second of their day and the people who read their tweets stopped reading them every second of their day.  What could we accomplish? Maybe nothing, but then again I'm sure that if they put a days worth of tweets into a days worth of real writing, the world would have a lot more novels to read.  (Like millions more)

TheRunAway

Thoughts

Have you ever felt like life is just passing you by? Like you're sitting on the sidelines watching everything fly past you, and you're just staying were you are.  I've felt that way, more times than one, all I can here is noise, the people talking down the hall, the teacher telling someone to be quiet, the buzz of the classroom, the cars racing by outside the window.  But you just sit there while everything moves around you, wanting to break free from it, wanting to runaway to a faraway place where no one can find you, where you make up the rules.  That's why I want to be a writer, because I can control what happens, I can travel to any part of the world, I could travel to Mars if I want to; and no one can hurt me or make me feel small or insignificant.  Writing makes me feel better when I'm upset, writing is a part of who I am.
TheRunaway

Nanowrimo!!!!

I'll just begin this with the exclamation that November is the worst and the best month of the year.  Why is that you ask? BECAUSE OF NANOWRIMO!!!!! This annoying (yet highly amusing) contest where you write 50,000 words in a month. Does that sound crazy to you? It is, trust me. I'm probably clinically insane for even thinking that I could actually finish 50,000 words in one month, I mean, come on. I have two books that I'm supposed to be reading for school, but am I reading them now? No, because I'm doing Nanowrimo, well technically I'm writing this blog, but lets just skip over the specifics shall we.  And if any of you have taken an online course, you must know how gruelling it is, but have I been doing that, no! I've been writing for Nanowrimo, in between the bits where I chat to my friends and make them look ugly on Picnik, but.... anyways that is not the point.  The point is that Nanowrimo is the hardest, most terrible, annoying thing you could ever put yourself through! It's enough to send you to the nut house. You can say goodbye to sunlight, and your social life, and don't even think about the word homework.  So why put yourself through it?  Because it's the most AWESOMEST contest ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who wouldn't want to stay up all night hoping to get their quota of words for the day?? I have 29306 words left to write in the span of 8 days, and it's going to be amazing!!  So watch out world, I'm going to write a novel!
TheRunaway.
P.S. Do you want to be part of this awesome experience? Go to http://www.nanowrimo.org/ for more info!