When I rule the world, I'll plant flowers

The beginning of summer vacation really isn't boding well for me so far - see, I can understand having no plans and being ridiculously bored at he end of the summer - you know, that point in time right at the end of summer vacation where for some reason, some mad part of your brain actually wants to return to school? Yeah, that part. However, I'm pretty sure that when you start to get that feeling three days into summer vacation, you're gonna have a problem. I wish I had more plans, but unfortunately I don't. My best friend lives across town and her mom, for whatever reason, won't even let her come to my house yet. That really pisses me off. What's worse, is that my fourteen year old brother has people over at the house every day - his friends all live in our neighborhood. Now that just isn't fair. I know that it's not like he means to do it, but in a way, it's almost taunting. Ridiculous, isn't it?

The most that I can say that I've done yet in terms of things that could be considered "fun" is that I went out with my mom: we saw the new Karate Kid last night at like Midnight, and my mom was shocked to learn that I had never seen the original. To be honest, I kind of wanted to laugh and say "Uh, well, you were there through my whole childhood, so you think that you'd be aware of that."

It was a good movie though, or I definitely thought so; a little long, perhaps, but that might have been because I sat there in my seat, on the very edge, while I watched the movie, even though I really had to use the bathroom - so if it was that good, eh, forget the fact that it was long. I'd recommend it. We went out to eat at Rockfish, and tried oyster nachos, which I found that I actually really loved. My mom bought me a dress and a gorgeous pair of boots at Urban Outfitters and then three Alice in Wonderland t-shirts from Hot Topic - although we found out that my favorite store clerk and friend, Sarah, got moved to a different city... that made me sad. And then, last but not least: my mom and I cannot go to the mall without going to Barnes and Noble. It's just physically impossible.

However, when I went to purchase my books of choice, the cashier started rambling onto me about what college I was in... uh... I was a little confused and had to explain to him that I was only a rising junior in high school. You know, that was when HE started to look a little confused, because apparently my books of choice are rather unusual "light reading" for someone my age, big shocker there. I bought Dante's Inferno, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, The Color of Water by James McBride, a book of selected poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, and The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. Also, I bought an Alice in Wonderland coloring book.You would think that have been clue enough that I was younger than I looked... either that, or for some reason he thought I was a single mother. Who am I to know?

Anyways, I know that i have half a dozen books somewhere in my house to which I would have loved to read, but instead they gather dust... why is that? Well, because during the school year, time is a mean thing that comes back to bite you on the ass. Hopefully I will have time this summer to put a prominent dent in that pile of books. Summer reading, here I come!