camp was AMAZING! good times, really, i mean it. :-)!!!! and we SO should've won.......DODGE DUCK DIP DIVE DODGE. hah. :-) mmmmmmmmmmm ok you can check out the pictures !!~~~

i got my SAT scores back today!

 

i got a perfect 800 on critical reading

a 740 on math

and a 710 on writing (the only reason i didn't do better was because i didnt spend time wisely and finish my essay)

 

needless to say, i feel pretty good. ooh and that makes me have a 1540 out of 1600 if i, like most colleges, disregard the writing section. mmhmm mhmm maybe yales not to far out of reach if i still push hard after all...?

 

ignoring the grammar of that last sentence and moving on,

 

i was richard nixon today!!!! im not sure quite what of that was so incredibly awesome but yeahh!!!

and im going swimming tomorrow and friday! yay! and yes, YAY!

 

okay byebye!

-ashley

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its quite weird looking back on what ive written before..it seems like my tone has gotten so different.. my entries from last july are chock full of exclamation points, smiley faces, squiggles, asterisks, and tildes...haha do i still do that? hmm. i wonder if ive changed really all that much. well i guess i probably have. i wonder if its a bad thing. if im worse off now..? a while ago, someone whos opinion i...held in high esteem i suppose.. told me id changed for the worse... and its sort of stayed in the back of my mind..

 

well, enough with all that for now. the point is, i am writing again. was that the point? ok nevermind.

 

so lets see whats new indeed?

 

mmm yesterday after school i went to see xmen III! it was pretty good, but the first two were better (probably because their writers and their director were better too) and i was SO sad that something happened to my favorite character mystique. she was like THE COOLEST! it was quite fun because what started off as being an orin-liz-and i thing ended up involving two and a half rows of friends. people were coming up to liz and i during lunch and asking "oh hey what time is the movie today again?"....lol it was surreal. then i went to kurts house and we hung out for a bit and ended up watching godzilla (a really old one) and it was really funny oh man godzilla was cool indeed.

 

also, my parents have just bought another house in minneapolis. i've never seen it, but from what i've heard its beautiful and big. i do like minneapolis..it's definately got a lot of bustle compared to rochester, and everything is new and safe and interesting. im going there over the summer for all of august...and every day im going to take the bus from the suburbs to the city and take my anatomy course at the university of minnesota twin cities, then go and find lunch, then come back for lab and dissections. im reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallly really excited for it. itll give me a good taste of what college will be like. am i going to college in minnesota? something about the middle of the country i dont like so much. i like being at the coasts more. but we'll see i guess.

 

calc yesterday was hilarious! (im bringing this up because i was thinking about college and the reason my calc class is crazy is because they're all seniors and they really dont care anymore). i got my test back, which was a 108% (which probably will actually become just a 110%) woohoo go me, and then we had doughnuts, and then someone arm wrestled our teacher and won so we didn't have to do anything for the entire class. i like calc now that we've already taken our ap so theres not so much to do anymore.

 

ahhh and prom was wonderful! i woke up and had to go to moms graduation ceremony which was just so cool! (she was really cute in those huge robes) (oh yes she got her masters in public administration btw) and then we had lunch with my relatives (a couple of them) and then i took a nap and got ready for prom/moms reception. moms reception was beautiful i really liked the location and papa made a good speech (im afraid i cant say the same for mine) and then kurt came to take me to prom (which was sort of ackward because all my moms friends were like taking pictures of us and talking about us) and then his corsage thing broke (oops) but finally we ended up on our way. we had the limo to ourselves because our friends wanted to go earlier (dinner was served at 7 but i couldn't leave until 715) which was interesting and prom itself was fun although maneuvering in the poofy dress was sort of difficult. also, it was strapless. im SO jittery about wearing strapless things. really. but it didn't fall down. which was nice. but it was SO tight (so that it wouldn't fall down). i also did the robot. then we went to charlotte beach which was beautiful but SOsosososososososooooooooooooooooooooo cold (we should've been in xiamen the beach there is much prettier) and then kurt came over and we watched my mom open her graduation presents and then i played him in chess and i LOST AGH thats only because im not very good about thinking when im sleepy.

 

hmm ive also been elected as president of model united nations..which is splendid but theres a lot of pressure i suppose (maybe im just imagining it) and i feel SO bad because i was almost a half an hour late to the car wash and then it was cancled while i was on my way because it was hailing so then my vice president (who everyone assumed would be president because she's gone to SO many more conferences than i and she's obsessed with model un) absolutely berated me for not being there. i was late because i was also getting ready for a job interview but it was still irresponsible of be but its NOT NICE OF HER to put me on this huge guilt trip !!!!

 

anyways. i cant write anymore well i probably could but i have not so much patience for it right now because its more important to talk to katie right now (ive been so bad about staying in touch with xiamen people i have to apologize profusely for that) so perhaps ill write later if i feel like it and there are no objections from the outside world.

 

bye!!!!!!

 

 

pix yeahhhh :-P i'mmm sooo happy w/ my reports! and school is fun! ok yay off to dance~

for my b-day present my mom and dad got me tickets to see jon stewart (from the daily show haha) at RIT!! and i went!! and it was *mad* hilarious~~ he's so smart!!! i think smartness is one of the fundamental bases of comedy. you can be dumb and funny, but in order to be *hilarious* you must be somewhat intelligent :-)

 

he did however make a couple comments about religion (what comedian doesnt offend some, let me ask?) and this dude yelled threw a Koran onstage. that annoyed me. jeesh dude, calm down. its a joke haha

 

ok i wont be online for a bit..sort of grounded from comp and phone for not being proactively responsible..sorry

 

i feel bad.

 

and not just cuz i lost comp and phone for a week.

 

well

 

ok byebye!