ASP is nearly over. SO SAD :( :( :( but I'm also looking forward to coming back home.

Two things that have made my day over the past two days:

#1. Yesterday afternoon I was walking on the wooded path from my dorm to the athletic center and there was a guy walking down the path with a guitar playing and singing "I Will Follow You Into the Dark."
#2. This morning there were banana pancakes for breakfast. Not only are banana pancakes delicious, but it totally made me think of an OrgLIX reference with Mansex Xemnas's haiku: "Don't be so foolish / I don't know what to write here / Banana pancakes."

Also, I learned that umbrellas break when you try to use them as lightsabers. Even though they may project like lightsabers, they do not swing like them.
 

I got a 5 on my AP English Exam. (Which my mum just informed me via e-mail with much exclamation point abuse.) I... am so glad all that AP practice was worth it. This, combined with the A that I somehow managed on the final, makes me no longer harbor any lasting resentment toward that class.

In other news, yesterday I thought that pressing all the buttons on my watch at the same time would be a good solution for getting it off some strange setting that it somehow ended up in. Pressing all the buttons makes the watch reset, and now I have no idea how to stop the watch from thinking that it's 9:38 on January 1st. I was just starting to get really reliant on watches, too. Oh well.

I guess I should read Antigone now. Yay plays featuring Oedipus' daughter/half-sister. (Oh, and I realized that ancient Greeks were very much in support of the Fred/George shipper slogan: "If you can't keep it in your pants, at least keep it in the family. High-class Athenians just loved to marry their cousins.)

Two things that I've learned so far regarding ASP: Nametags and fruit breaks are Serious Business.

I really like my classes. Ancient Greece is a lot of fun; right now we're doing an overview on the gods and creation, along with learning the Greek alphabet. I can transliterate things from Greek to English now. Our intern is really big into languages as far as I can tell, so we're going to be doing a bit of learning the language as well, which is good for me the language lover. Today we were talking about exciting things such as how Kronos castrated Ouranos with a sickle, and how Freud's theories relate to mythology (which includes how apparently every woman wants a penis and men are afraid of women because of "vagina denta" which means vagina with teeth. Oh, the images there.)

My other class is Writing Workshop. in which we prepare to do lots of personal writing (to have stuff prepared for writing college application essays). We had to read an article last night and discuss the argument that the writer makes, so I totally put on my AP English hat and was all RHETORICAL ANALYSIS FTW! (Speaking of English, I got a 93 on my final, yay! Not quite sure how that happened...)

Also, many people have decided that the St. Paul's campus = Hogwarts. It totally is, though, except there are no house-elves and ghosts and we can't do magic. There's even a kid named Harry Potter in the program. There's also a kid who apparently looks like Edward Cullen according to a girl in my dorm. It's a magical place here at SPS ASP.