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working intensely for the school paper right now - i'm learning how to use quark xpress by
getting to lay out two whole pages for the next issue! it's really nervous and scary and it's
hard to switch from webpage format to news paper format and see what would work the best quickly,
but it's slowly coming along. it's perversly fun.
i might bust a vein when the next issue is
published - it will have 2 pages i did the layout and design for, a photo essay on the blood
drive (pics and text by me), a brief somebody wrote on the echo being online with quotes by me
in it, and at least one large ad announcing that the echo is online.
it's all about ME ME ME ME. soon it'll be called "the jennie echo" - ah, the glorious days of
a large ego... okay, if i don't shut up soon i'm going to gag.
it's pretty much decided that i will stay here in america all summer and fall.
i suspected as much, but this morning i called my mom and was told that our house back
home is practically sold and that she will be moved out by the end of the summer. i don't know how i feel about that.
i know it is childish, but heh - we have owned the house since the beginning of the 20'th century. my grandmother
grew up in it. i spent my teens there. heck, i have a shed in the yard still filled with incredibly dusty things
like hundreds of cheap books and water-damaged video tapes. i can't handle the thought that somebody is
going to clean it out and dispose of things without my supervision. i'm also paranoid that some odd journal thing from
my dramatic mid-teens might be found - i wrote some pretty harsh things in it that i am less than willing to have a
family member read. blergh.
anyhow. my mom told me that she would rather i saved the trip for christmas instead, and i agreed.
some people seem stunned that we don't have a problem being separated for almost a year and a half, but i can't
explain it. all i know is, i can deal not being home for summer, but these christmases away from home have been
hellish and depressing. it's not because i haven't had good company - i've just felt incredibly disconnected and
far away. swedish christmas tv over the phone doesn't cut it.
ghod. how the hell am i supposed to handle north carolina summer heat? i melt if it's above 75 degrees as it is!!
okay whatever this is so lame and it is 12.30 am saturday morning. i've been working for the paper for 12 hours straight.
man. whatever. lame. bye. i just needed to put up a gavin picture and now look at what i've got - 4 lame rants! woo!
ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!
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