Example of Ekphrasis

Audrey was lying on her bed reading a magazine.  This was the same magazine that she had read when she was on vacation in Mexico last summer.  The beach that she had read it on was one of the beaches where turtles laid their eggs.  A woman named Ms. Robinson studied these turtles and enjoyed visiting the beach with her daughter, Maryann.  Maryann went to NYU and majored in Women's Studies.  She felt empowered by her classes, so she got her hair cut in the same way as Emma Watson.  Emma Watson had recently modeled for Calvin Klein and had a make-up artist named Charlene.  Charlene had been doing make-up for 13 years.  She had even done make-up for Nicole Kidman, who recently wore a new dress to the Oscars.  Mindy, a girl working as a stage manager for the Oscars, had been fired for reading on the job.  In reality, she had gotten mono from her boyfriend, John, and the only way that she wouldn't feel nauseous was by reading.  John had shared a drink with his friend Barry, who had gotten mono after making out with a girl in a bar.  This girl had been testing out pick-up tips that she read in the same article that Audrey was reading.

Summer Essentials

This will be a comprehensive list that I'll (hopefully) add to all summer!


Music

• Andy Grammer's CD (Fine By Me, Lunatic, Keep Your Head Up, Build Me a Girl)

Food/ Snacks

• Edamame (refrigerated)
• Peach NEHI (only available from ASP)

Places


Books


Miscellaneous

• Awesome sunglasses
• Small tube of sunscreen (carry it everywhere)
• Aloe vera

Woah! I'm writing again!

Hello, dear people who read this blog!  In other words, hello self!  The seniors are gone and I am bored out of my mind!  Here I sit, in Mr. Hughes's room, breathing in the chilled and artificial air blasting from his conditioner, waiting for something interesting to happen.  I regret leaving my book, Anna and the French Kiss, at home, because it is so good.  I really want to be reading it right now, but I'll have to wait until after work.


Well, I just tried to go on goodreads.com, but it is block because it it "Entertainment."  The things that this school blocks are absolutely ridiculous.  I want to read, shouldn't you be encouraging that?  Oy vey, John Carroll is losing it.


I'm getting this weird feeling of maturity that is completely unwarranted recently.  It'll be brought on by the most random things, but I like it.  Driving, even though I'm not very fond of it, makes me feel independent.  Walking around before or after work to run errands in Bel Air just makes me happy.  And being able to drive around with Adam and hang out, just the two of us, is just wonderful.  I know that I'm 17 and practically a baby to a lot of people, but I like the feeling of doing what I want and taking care of what I need to do.


In other news, I watched Captain America last night!  I had seen the Avengers and wanted to see some of the back stories (I'm checking out Thor tonight).  I really liked Captain America, but I viewed it really cynically.  I feel like my view of America has gotten continually darker, which is sad, in a way.  I see my country as this place that has rights for some and not others, a place that seems to consider itself a superhero, and a place with absolutely no history.  Going to Edinburgh, York, Stratford upon Avon, and London kind of opened my eyes to what a child America is.  Some of their churches were built centuries before our country was even discovered.  I want to live surrounded by history.


I should be catching up on my massive amount of Latin to get done, but I'll do that some other time... ciao!