Probably Like the Best 24-Hour Period Ever

[mood: walkin on sunshine]
[music: hold me, bat boy]

so, lets start exactly 24 hours ago. i had gone to work a little early, so i got out at 6:49. this was planned. i fully intended to have some extra time between getting off and 7 to get to the ossies. that would be the ostranders, or memphis theatre awards, and from that you should see where this is going. and so i changed my shoes in the car and we (my mother and i) got there wet but on time. i saw two lovely seats near the front in the middle. however, my mother suggested that we sit off to the right a bit because thats where the actors usually sit. so we did. to the right, second row. mother went to get a drink. i sat. and waited. and lo and behold! my mothers judgment OWNS. who should sit right in front of us, but andrew weir, paul seiz, angela groeschen, and--you guessed it--michael ingersoll. YES. SIR. now, let me refresh your memory.


headshot.


from floyd collins. (WHY did i not see this? WHY?)


from of mice and men (with george dudley, who won the ossie for best lead male instead of him.)

thank you, google image search. thank you, PotS. so angela won two ossies, andrew weir won two (one of them was the super impressive rising star award thing), and paul seiz won one (but he was nominated against himself five times. in the same category). and michael sang something gorgeous from floyd collins, but he didnt win any, and it was just about the saddest thing ever. but not really, cause of mice and men was sadder. which is why he should have won. HOW can you not give an ostrander to the man whose character had to kill his best friend? it was so sad to look and see ossies under the chairs of everyone on his row. i was highly distraught. but he took it like a man. yes sir.

so when andrew weir won that thing everyone stood up and FINALLY he turned around. and he waved. and WINKED. and he smiled and said, "hey, its you! i was like, who the hell is behind me?" cause i was naturally very enthused in my applause and whatnot for various awards (of mice and men won best drama), and he said it sweetly. so everyone sat down and they gave out the last award(s?) and then mom was like, "we need to go." so we started wandering out (slowly because i was stalling) and i said, "mom! dont you need to go to the bathroom?" and so she did. yes. stallstall, and out he comes in this yellow jacket. o MAN.

so we spoke very briefly and then andrew weir (or is it wier? i think its weir) came and talked to him for a minute, during which time he held my shoulder. (the right shoulder. now my favored shoulder.) so andrew weir left and we spoke further. discussed things: he married angela the first day of school, i love him, theyre going to chicago tomorrow, they plan to visit once a month. so mom got out of the bathroom and started out, so, naturally, a hug was to ensue. and it did, and it was prolonged. and then he kissed my left cheek this time (both previous times it had been the right). and THEN,

he said:


"you want one on the lips before you go?"


and i did.

and the rest is history.




(im walkin on sunshine, whoa-oh!
im walkin on sunshine, whoa-oh!
im walkin on sunshine, whoa-oh!
and dont it feel good?)

What I Did at Work

this. yeah its a link. (waaaatcha gonna doaboutit?)

in the clean version of Ride Wit Me (nelly), when they scramble what mofo is short for, it sounds like "muthfagummh" and its funny. morgan made moon pies. thay are a gift from god. alannas finna go to college. itll be weird to never see any of them. the weekend was enjoyable, but not particularly intriguing.

stayed home friday. saturday went to trezevant then saw you and me and everyone we know at highland with morgan, alanna, eileen, johntom, morgan fox, and so forth. it was good i thought. then went home with morgan. today made pancakes with morgan, eileen left, read a tiny bit of OaFK, helped morgan make moonpies, came home, did contemporary issues homework, had dinner, got online. i need to think of a shorter term for contemporary issues. something like, CONTISSUES. i like it.

ObligaLATE Start of School Post

as i hope you understand, this is more for me remembering when im old and senile than for you being entertained right now, so if you dont wanna read this, yknow, whatever.

2nd: Pre-AP English, Ms. Douglas, Rm 034. this class will be so hard. what a horrible woman. its not that, i mean, she doesnt seem mean until she takes off for putting your page numbers at the bottom instead of the top. and by takes off, i dont mean two points, or five. i mean ten. TEN. TEN POINTS. OFF A FIFTY ONE PAGE PAPER OVER WHICH I SPENT HALF MY SUMMER SLAVING. I AM PISSED, AND I DONT EVEN SAY PISSED. in the words of newman: "sometimes you want to kill yourself in her class... just to show her whos boss."
people in this class (PitC): lane and annebel (at my table), rachel schou, andrew lu, lilla, coretta, hannah schafer (sp?), alex bransford, mariana, david nikaido (my favorite asain! he dyed his hair blond! wtf!) UPDATE: justin. GAWD.

3rd: Honors Latin II, Ms. Haughton, Rm 10. not too bad, not too bad. it seems easy-ish so far. the sentences in the work today were like, pater est lucius, and stuff. but maybe thats cause its the begining of school. lane hates latin so much its hilarious.
PitC: lane, annebel, lauren nelson, four michaels (including biscoe!), a buncha people from latin i.

4th: Honors Contemporary Issues, Ms. Matson, Rm 237. this class will be easy im pretty sure. very little homework, very few projects, and its high time i learn whats going on in the world, cause i have no idea. i didnt know who tony blair was. i am pathetic. but it will be fun.
PitC: mariana, the kid who i call the kid who has no friends but i think he has a friend anyway his name is karim, and pretty much no one else. but it will be like old BOTT group times with mariana.

5th: Honors World History, Mr. Whitehead, Rm 235. im for real excited. he gave us an extra credit test about the apartments and stuff in london where rock stars were. his favorite artist is hendrix. he said "your name isnt ms caplan unless your hormone pills stopped working" to peter. morbidly awsome.
PitC: anna talley, emma, peter, austin finney, hannah joyce, a very small foreign freshman boy named calvin(?), ms caplan (the very outspoken and very redheaded freshman whom i dont know but will prove to make this class very interesting)

Lunch: C, freshman lunch, but a decent number of people i enjoy.
PitC: even though its not a class. all those folks from world history (calvin is part of our adopt-a-freshman program) lane, mercer, eileen, kristen howell, hairston, afton, dillon, leo, and hobbit kid. not shabby at all.

6th: Honors Chemistry, Ms. Davis, Rm 103. ms davis is such a crazy mofo. i love her. i already have like, 35 or 40 davis dollars. score. plus, i think i am going to like chemistry. i never imagined that was possible.
PitC: lane, jake whatshisface, the prestons. not too extensive a list, but theres lane.

7th: Honors Algebra II, Rm 034. you notice how i didnt list a teacher? yeah. thats cause i DONT HAVE ONE. thats right. they havent hired a replacement for mr munter yet. and thats what it said on my schedule. algebra ii, charles munter. which of course means that if he had stayed i would be in his wonderful class again instead of in ms douglas's room in alphabetically assigned seats doing ridiculous busy work assigned by a sub. silently. cause we cant talk. W. TF.
PitC: audrey, peter, philly.

so there you have it. that was overdue. if i get over ms douglas making me want to die and get a math teacher, ill be quite happy. except i have no classes with morgan or eileen or mercer (cept lunch). if its odd that i pointed out mercer, i did it cause in 8th i had ALL my classes with her and in 9th i had three and lunch, so im used to a lot of mercer, and now im deprived.

the end.

Honeydew

or is it hunny-do? like a honeydew list. thats the melon. anyway, this is just to get everything straight in my head of what i need to do before school starts. if i write it down ill feel .4% more prepared. ill cross stuff out when i do it.

• Interview at Trezevant. I GOT THE JOB I GOT THE JOB!
• Register for school. That I'll do tomorrow. Done it.
• Finish Connecticut Yankee journal. I've already typed all the quotes and analyzed the ones through ch.38 as of 2:30 Sunday morning. I'M DONE I'M DONE I'M DONE I'M DONE I'M DONE I'M DONE I'M DONE!
• Get journals bound. I heart Kinkos. O man, the completion is so gratifying.
• Go to the dermatologist's. 'Cause of my knees. Mom's getting me an appointment. Well, I got an appointment, but it's not for six weeks so I'm crossing it out now anyway.
• Celebrate Lane's birthday. I was at the mall for almost seven hours. Sweet wounded Jesus, my heels hurt.
• Get a haircut. Just a trim. Gay boy who looks like Aaron Lohr has a green-tipped fauxhawk now.
• Read The Once and Future King. Let's face it. That's not gonna happen. It seems good. Maybe I'll read it soon.
• Read the Sparknotes for The Once and Future King. Maybe I'll read the first and last chapters.
• Buy uniform clothes. I need grey shirts and black pants. And maybe a green (kelly or darker) shirt. And some socks. Yay Target.Yay Old Navy.
• Buy school supplies. Notebook paper, theme paper, PhD pencil, hairties, etc. Yes, hairties are a school supply. Man, Office Max is like Christmas. Got some great parchment paper for my journals.
• Go to the dentist's. I got a purple toothbrush. Funtimes.
• Drive somewhere. Well, I'd like to, at least, since I've only driven in a parking lot before. Actually, I didn't, but summer's over and if i don't have everything crossed off I'll go all OCD up in this junt.
• Eat cake and/or Indian with the Pairrrerrr of Three. Mmmm. Lamb kabob. Scrumptious.
• Not die. That's the hard one. Frodo lives! And so do I.

okay, i think thats it. and what was up with all that correct capitalization up there? craziness. im thinking of dying my hair again. POLL: should i do it? if so, should i do the same florange as last time or something else? if something else, what? why?

A Funk

amelia is gone.
ive been slaving for ms l douglas since seven.
except i took a break to finish lanes mix.
im tired.
i dont think im going to read the once and future king.
i just dont see that happening.
amelias still gone.
i threw up some cake earlier.
that was fun.

The Summer of Amelia!

http://flickr.com/photos/honeylight/sets/654301/
enjoy. theres like alotta pictures, and surely there will be more.

ps:
MAKE THE PIE HIGHER!
http://www.sablesys.com/pie-high.html

Rainbow, Panda, Donnie?

goooooood morning, and welcome to mondays edition of Sara Writes Down What She Dreamt Last Night So She Can Remember It! todays guests include a very small rainbow, her dad, a van, a broadway show, gilmore girls' mrs kim, panda suits, amelia, an unexpected phone call, donnie, a couch, and some serious blushing. lets bring 'em out!

okay. so there were three, i think, but the third one referred to the first one so... i dont know. first, dad was driving me home in his fedex van, and it had been raining, so there was a rainbow, but it was much smaller than a normal rainbow, and i could see where the end went, so just as we were driving past that place i JUMPED OUT OF THE CAR. yes. and didnt get myself killt. right, so the rainbow ended under the very end of an overpass where the road is just like twoish feet off the ground, yknow? and the rainbow was kinda sparkly and full of particles and really pretty. so i scooted down under there looking for my pot of gold (obviously) but there wasnt one. there were, however, many different superhuge (between volleyball and basketball sized) jewel-y things, but more opaque, and one was in the bottom of hte road like a button to push, so i pushed it really hard and then i heard my dad honking for me from down the road so i had to go, and he was like, WHAT, and i was like, dude, its the end of a rainbow, why wouldnt i jump out the car?

then amelia and i were in some musical i think at the orpheum, but we hadnt rehearsed it at all (ive had two or three dreams like that) so we just had to go with the flow, and so we followed everyone and crowded around someone in a corner and pretended to listen to them tell a story, then all the other kids left and came back on in panda suits, and i was like, dude amelia, i think we should put on some panda suits, but we went back there and there were none left, so we went on a search of backstage into this HUGE like warehouse room with some panda suits hanging on the ceiling over this like knocked over metal cabinet thing. so we tried to get them down but obviously failed a lot until we saw mrs kim coming and freaked out cause we thought shed be really mad at us for being back there but she just helped us get some down and we talked about white dresses.

finally (and this ones my favorite, not because its extremely bizarre but because its warm and fuzzy) i was at home, but it didnt look like my house, it was just understood. and chase from lakeshore may or may not have been there in the beginning, im not sure, but he disappeared at some point if he was. i dont remember the details as well from this one. so suddenly the phone rang, and it was that huge old grey phone thats in my parents' room, so i answered it and it was donnie. (dont remember or know about donnie? hes the infamous gorgeous boy i met in alabama summer before last and was seriously crushing on until i found out he was five years older than me and thats illegal. his shoulders were freckly.) so naturally i was incredibly giddy and grinny and it was probably really obvious on the phone too, and then in a few minutes he shows up at my house while we're still on the phone and im super happy and then BOOM! he proclaims his love for me. and it wasnt even cheesy either. and so we're still on the phone even though hes like three feet away and we sit on the very squashy couch (the one drew just got yesterday thats blue) and naturally i was blushing like a marysue and im so nervous i refuse to get off the phone and so i turn sideways towards the empty part of the couch and we're still on the phone but his elbow is definitely in contact with my back, and so we talked on the phone for a really long time. at some point i mentioned jumping out of the car. its not interesting, its just very warm and fuzzy. [EDIT] there was a lot of tense change in this paragraph. [/EDIT]

[NEW EDIT] I LJed, dude. www.livejournal.com/~ancilladelectat [/NEW EDIT]

thats it. maybe ill get a job.

Don't Read the Paper

so i forgot strike day. it was wednesday. sorry. at any rate, dont read the paper till august second. maybe i wont forget end-of-strike day.

have been having far too much for with amelia, morgan, and eileen. weve been joined at various times by mouse, dunkan, lane, alanna, katherine, and walked to davis kidd a million times. we finished harry potter 51 hours after we bought it. i wont say anything for the sake of those who havent read it yet except i liked it but the first twenty chapters read like a fanfiction. not as good as the fifth one, but still good. we saw charlie and the chocolate factory, a very good movie, and the island, which i liked and morgan kinda liked and mouse and amelia hated. but hey, ewan mcgregor. and theres TWO OF HIM. ive lived at eileens for four nights before last night, when amelia and i came here and morgan went home because we got kicked out of eileens house. lane joined amelia and me but left early this morning. yesterday we had a cannibal luncheon featuring:

Peanut butter and jelly body parts
Research Journalist Soup
Artery Delight
Ladyface
and my personal favorite, Spotted Dick of Mousscius Malfoy: This Shit is BANANAS!

took a shower this morning (hah, morning, 1:00) and amelias in there now. i have a little cold that ive so far treated with one vitamin, one glass of orange juice, and hot oatmeal. i can breathe through both nostils now. well im supposed to read a connecticut yankee while amelia showers, so i should go do that. anybody who can think of anything awesome we did that i havent listed, comment it so i remember in years to come.

YAYUH.

AMELIA IS HERE, BAYBISS.

(saw war of the worlds with dad and drew. great. got my permit tuesday in 47 minutes. sweet. picture is awful.)

Here Comes the Bride

so i went to beckys wedding. it was nice, not too long, and the reception food was good except i didnt know the grooms cake had coconut in it until i took a big ol hearty bite. the dress is still a bit snug, but i found out i can hold my breath for two hours, which has gotta come in handy sometimes. like when someone bets me i cant hold my breath for two hours. dunkans not home, which sucks, cause i was gunna instigate some hanging out-ige with her. ill try again later. i finished my le morte journal (YAYUH). its ten pages and justin said he heard it had to be twenty+, but hatties is only 10 and she got a 98, so i dont care. i guess ill start CT yankee tomorrow. three chapters a day and two or three days to journal it will give me about two weeks to read once and future king. i totally made up those estimates just now. so heres a song i used to sing with lauren reed about weddings:

here comes the bride
big fat and wide
where is the groom?
hes in the surgery room
why is he there?
hes having surgery hair.

wtf? we were crazy little kids. there was also one that involved sticking a water hose up your nostril and disappearing. yup. this week is gettinmypermit week. i can feel it.

With Charmin Ultra...

AHAHAHAHAHAHAA. see, cuz its a pun.

Snibbets

we bought the only yellow shoes in america.
its the fourth of july barely.
ive had a lot of corkys.
justin, hattie, and i are going to drive to anchorage, wanna come?
there was a show on today called extreme akim.
i went to scandyvan with lilla.
cinnamon spice and everything nice never tasted the same.
spent the freak engine and the night with emma.
reading le morte takes forever.
i spent my allowance on a george foreman grill.
mom got me some clearasil ultra (sweet!).
sometime this summer im going to get the dermatologist to fix my knees and get this little wart off my hand.
i may or may not be carrying the christ child.
a lot of these colors are ugly.
spain legalized gay marriage.
i am 34% american.
quit trying to act like im a steamboat operator.

gorgeous person-other-than-gabriel-damon of the moment: Diego Luna.

No, you don't understand.

at about 10:39PM tonight, after his performance of lumiere in beauty and the beast,
MICHAEL A. INGERSOLL KISSED MY FACE.

My Heart and Flesh Cry Out, for You the Living God.

Your spirit's water to my soul.
I've tasted and I've seen
Come once again to me
I will draw near to You
I will draw near to You.

how gorgeous are THOSE flowing locks?

i hate you all cause no one wrote to me
(not really, i love everyone)

here is how i described lakeshore to kathryn:
imagine something really good. got it? now make it fifty times better and put it in a place where everything is pretty but 95 degrees.

i want to write a whole lot about it but itll ruin the moment, you know?

i really think im gonna be a christian again, guys. its not like a conscious decision. i just think its happening. and thats really good.

lakeshore makes me all warm and happy. friday night everyone cried. everyone always cries on friday night, but that doesnt make it any less what it is. i FELL DOWN crying in the field on the way back from the tabernacle. it was so intense. i wish everyone could have this.

My mom bought me the dress

!

!!!!!!!!!!

its yellow, okay? its yellow and white and i love it. and mom bought me it cause i love it and i needed something to wear to my cousin beckys wedding in july. which gives me till july ninth to make it go from a tiny bit too small to juuuust right. i can do it, right? right. wow, three rights in seven words. also i have to buy a strapless bra. a big step, that one.

drew got a virus. it was bad, but brief. hes doing better now.

i got some orbit gum. (a good clean feeling-- no matter what.)

hey! im going to lakeshore tomorrow! and dont make lakeside references cause thats old.

i volunteered at the library for three and a half hours friday and today. at the book sale. and guys, you dont understand how frustrating it was. the rest of the volunteers were SO INEFFICIENT. they counted slowly, they added slowly-- seriously, WHO needs a calculator to see that 20 paperbacks at 50 cents is 10 dollars? who? but otherwise it was okay, and before i left today they started the BAG SALE. ohemgee. it was awesome. anything you can fit in a grocery bag is three dollars. i got tons of books i only kinda wanted. everything from the complete works of sophocles to calculus to something or other by roald dahl to the norton anthology. <3

going to camp! write to me! ill be there a week!
Sara Stephens
Senior High Camp
Lakeshore UMA
1448 Pilot Knob Rd.
Eva, TN 38333

Observe:

every time i dream i can fly, it always requires a whole lot of effort, i.e. holding my breath, breaking through ice, etc.

analysis, anyone?

NEW EMAIL ADDRESS

popsiclesareforthesummertime@gmail.com

keep it secret. keep it safe.

Guilty Pleasures ('n' other stuff)

im feeling very female and not very determined. this is not a sad post. im in a good mood. i just thought you might want to know. here are some things i hanker for right now:
-brown esprit heels i saw in dillards or macys the other time with the little pink bow and the pink piping. blogger doesnt have a text color the color of this bow and this piping. theyre very bright pink.
-the other brownie in the kitchen
-the strapless dress i saw at dillards or macys with thin little yellow and white vertical stripes
-pan brigio bread, also in the kitchen
-those pink china flats with cherries on them from flashback.

thats all. well okay, its not all, but its the key things. i finished the driving book, but im still going to study it some more. maybe i can go get my permit monday or tuesday. also, im almost done with the restaurant at the end of the universe. which is scary, cause when i finish it im starting my summer reading. i feel like the dialectical journals wont be quite as scary as i think. hope im right. i went to kathryns birthday party three hours late, which is funny. we chocolate-fondued everything. another list. things that were fondued and eaten by a member of the party:
-strawberry
-brownie
-pizza
-carrot
-celery
-broccoli
-napkin
-dip
-salsa
-tortilla chip
-a pepper. blogger also doesnt have a text color for this.

i spent the night with kathryn. we watched THE ATOMIC BRAIN, which is a movie but also is an hour long. i had apple juice. and too many brownies. mmm.

LANE! I RECORDED YOUR BLOOD DRIPS ON NEWSIES SQUARE FINALLY! MORE INCENTIVE FOR YOU TO INVITE ME OVER!

[EDIT] finished restaurant at the end of the universe. ending indeed semi-lame. the rest was ver. good though. my new not-been-dropped-in-the-toilet-at-the-y phone came. so call me all the time. [/EDIT]

Why I'm Falling Over

yesterday i went to skateland at 730. then at 9 i went to morgans. we rented phantom of the opera. we ate leftover pizza. eileen was there also. she drew on my back. very cool, but it smeared. at 130am we started phantom of the opera. good movie that one. emmy rossums voice is nice. so it ended. at 4am we went to bed and at 7 we awoke. at 8 janelle came and took us to the protest. it was good. twentyish people. some kid there said he wasnt with the protest and got all this information from the camp. cool. at any rate, GIVE ME NAP-ERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH

GUYS, SPREAD THE WORD. GET IT OUT OF MEMPHIS. GET IT ANYWHERE YOU CAN.

most of you know all of this, but it needs to be everywhere. take it, share it, spread it. put info on your blogs and livejournals even if you think no one who doesnt already know will read it, cause maybe they will.

REMEMBER: those of you who know the whole scoop, DONT NAME NAMES. we dont want to make it any worse for you know who.

this was on the eyewitness news website. (myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=E46B7C69-EBD7-4429-A26F-DFC31CC02016)
Turning Gay Teens Straight Posted: 6/6/2005 10:54:44 PM
Angry protesters battle it out with members of a Mid-South group who are trying to turn gay teens straight! Protesters say the Christian based organization “Love In Action” is brain washing kids and putting them in danger. The program’s organizers say they’re giving gay teens a guide to a straight lifestyle, through prayer.

Reverend John Smid says “The truth is that if someone is expressing themselves homosexually, they are involving themselves in inappropriate sexual conduct.” Smid has been the executive director of “Love In Action” for the past 19 years. He makes no apologies for his strong beliefs about gay and lesbian lifestyles. Smid says he used to be gay, and says sexual exploration by youth is out of control. “Youth are involved in sexual expression through internet pornography through internet communications and physical relationships in heterosexual and homosexual ways, it’s all out of control.” Rev. Smid says “Love In Action” only aligns teens’ sexuality with their parents Christian beliefs.

Protesters showed up in front of the refuge today to protest. Janelle Treibitz says it’s wrong to force kids to participate. “They lump homosexuals with drug and alcohol abuse as if it’s somehow on the same plane, as if it’s something that needs to be treated or healed.”

Protesters fear the long-term effects on families. One protester says “When you have these very natural feelings and you are forced into something like this from your parents who you would hope would be a center of love and guidance and support for you, it’s just a really harmful thing.”

Janelle Treibitz says not every teen needs intervention, rather understanding. “Some of these children are not struggling; they know their sexual identities but parents won’t accept it so they send them here. But those who are struggling and have questions, there are psychologists that can be seen.”

http://www.livejournal.com/users/morgankissboys/ (<--all the protest info is here)
http://www.inoohr.org/ (<--international organization of heterosexual rights. hit it up if youre not quite angry enough yet)
http://www.asafeplace.org (<--the camps webwsite)

every time i think about this whole thing i want to scream. i cant possibly imagine what these kids will go through in these next weeks. show up to these protests, kids. make signs, come ready, and get heard. ill be at them whenever i can. if your parents wont let you go, stay the night at a friends house and go with them in the morning. its time we did something about this. support your friends, support gays, straights, and everyone in between.

whatever happened to god loving everyone?

EDIT
this was myeyewitnessnews.com's daily poll.

Poll Results: Do you agree with programs that try to convert homosexuals to heterosexuals?
Yes: 10.0%
No: 88.8%
I don't know: 1.2%

the good news: most of memphis that voted is on our side. the bad news: Yes: 10.0% who are these people?

UPDATED POLL RESULTS:

Do you agree with programs that try to convert homosexuals to heterosexuals?
Yes: 16.5%
No: 82.3%
I don't know: 1.2%

EDIT II:

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF LOVE IN ACTION:"I would rather you commit suicide than have you leave Love In Action wanting to return to the gay lifestyle. In a physical death you could still have a spiritual resurrection; whereas, returning to homosexuality you are yielding yourself to a spiritual death from which there is no recovery." --The Final Indoctrination from John Smid, Director, Love In Action (LIA)

/EDITS