Okay, here's some entries from the camping trip. (Sorry I didn't get them up sooner, but SitD was being a bitch as usual). "Sunday, August 22, 2004 06:19 p.m. FRIDAY Dad and I left for Seward this morning. It was... fun. I didn't wake up until ten and Dad had wanted to be on the road by nine. So I showered and packed my stuff. Then we went to Blockbusters to get some movies (I know, not much of a camping thing), but it turns out that we forgot the DVD player at home, so we went back for that. Then we stopped at the Summit Lake Lodge for lunch, and bought some lemonade. That was the best lemonade I've had in a long time. So when we got into town, we went by the Liberty Theater to check movie times, and then went to get some ice cream. Then we went to the cabin, then back to town to get a hookup for the DVD player. The cabin's pretty nice. In fact, it's too nice. It's so fancy! I like the Captain's Cabin so much better. Oh, well, I'll live. I just love spending time in this town. *** We went to see Thunderbirds. It was a lot better than I thought it was gonna be, but it still wasn't great. It ended the exact same way that Spy Kids did.... In the theater, there were these boys, maybe a year or two younger than me, that were checking me out. It was pretty weird (considering that my dad was there) but like I said about Ralph and Chris, it feels good to know that someone since Jordan could be interested. Two things I was thinking about on the ride here (because there's a lot to think about on a three-hour drive with very little talking): THE FIRST: A conversation I had with Carmen a while back.We were talking about nudity in art. And what we said really is true. Americans turned sex into into a disgusting thing. Before modern America, sex and nudity was a beautiful thing, a work of art in itself, and it still should be. I mean, look at the ancient Greek and Roman statues and paintings. That's what nudity used to be: art. A beautiful occurance. Now look at any porn movie. That's what nudity is now: something parents don't want their children knowing about. A vulgar thing. It's sad, it really is. THE SECOND: Something I hand't realized until today. I don't hate preps; I feel sorry for them. I've been several things in my life, including prep, punk, athlete, and tom-boy, and the only time I was ever really happy was when I was just being me. Preps live in a world of artificial happiness, and I doubt that many of them know the true joy of being themselves. And I suppose msot of them don't realize that that there is a better way to live than the way they already do. And that is a true reason to pity them. I know I sound crazy. Sorry. Okay, I gotta go, we're watching a movie. Buh-bye! TTFN! ~+~+~+~+~ SATURDAY Dad and I climbed about half-way up the Harding Icefield trail. It was fun, but pretty tiring. I twisted my ankle and hurt me knee. But man, do I love rock-climbing. It's so fun! I'm watching The Order right now. It's the weirdest fucking thing ever.... Whatever. I'm reading a new book called Nights in Rodanthe. It's a romance, but so far (I'm on the third chapter) it isn't cheesy at all. It's by Nicholas Sparks, who wrote The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, and a few others, so he's pretty famous. Well, I'm gonna go write a little bit. Cya. TTFN! TODAY Well, hello. The camping was pretty fun. We got back to Anchorage at three, so we decided to go see a movie to kill time. So we went to see AVP (much to my protests). It, too, was a hell of a lot better than I thought it would be. Actually, it was a kick-ass movie. The only thnig I didn't like about it.... THEY KILLED MONTICELLO!!!! Well, it that movie his name was Sabastian.... BUT STILL!!! THEY KILLED HIM!!! Not fair! He's awesome! And hot! No fair killing hot guys!!! Well, Mom and Jess weren't home when we got back, so we just ordered pizza. It hasn't gotten here yet, though. So I have some time to write in here. I got to the seventh chapter on Nights in Rodanthe. So far, not much has happened. I'm just about half-way through the book. Not much has happened, but it's good. The storm in the book reminded me of one of my stories, called Chasing Thunder, and I really wanna go work on it now, but it's on my computer upstairs in my room. And it's been so bloody hot lately, which means my room is gonna be two thousand degrees, and if I go in there, I'll melt. So I'll just stay down here, where it's nice and cool.... Okay, pizza's here, gotta go. TTFN!" Okay, on Sunday (or Monday morning, I should say) I made some new friends on There. There's Chazzy (he's awesome!), Tervis (he's from Finland), Dj (he can't speak English well...), and Wulfe (I have a mega-crush on him). They're all awesome. I was hanging out with Chaz a bit yesterday, but he was around these really annoying girls, so I just left. One of them kept shooting me with a paintball gun.... The little bitch. Tweek was driving me insane. He was driving me insane because he wasn't there!!! His avie was online, but he wasn't at his desk, so I waited for him for about an hour before I just left the game completely because I felt so bloody lonely. A different subject. My mom asked me an unexpected question today.... She asked me if anything happened to her and Dad, ho would I want to live with? It scared the fuck out of me. I didn't want to think about my parents dying! But she really wanted an answer, so I said Julie. And she kept going. "What about after that?" Dianne, I guess.... I don't know, I just don't want to think about my parents dying. I'l think about it when it happens. We went clothes shopping today. Yech. We went to Sports Authority and Hot Topic, and I got three new pairs of pants. They're all really cool. But I hate shopping, with a passion (unless I'm with friends, that can be sooo much fun). They're playing Breaking Benjamin on the radio now. That's bad. It's bad because if they play them on the radio, we're gonna get all those wannabe fans that say they like them but have only heard one song.... But it's also good, because the more fans there are up here, the higher chance of them coming up here for a concert.... So, yesh, keep playing them on the radio. Just please don't play one song and one song only, because that's how we get wannabe fans. Tweek wants to start a band.... Well, so far we got it together pretty well.... Carol's on the drums, Tweek's got bass, Dominic and someone else has guitar... and Sid and I are undecided. We both want to be vocals. I guess it would be okay to have onefemale and one male lead, right? That's how it was with Zack's band, and they were pretty good.... I'm getting too many band offers. I got an offer from the Massecres (Zack's band) but they kinda split up since Zack moved to Cordova.... And I got an offer from Carmen's future band to be vocals. And now Tweek's future band. Too many! I don't even know if I wanna be in one. I mean, in eighth grade, we're gonna have a lot of work to o with Seminar and Health.... I'm gonna be busy. Plus Tweek wants to practice in his garage, ane he lives across town, so I wouldn't have a ride. Whatever. I guess we'll work it out. When we were at Hot Topic, my mom wouldn't let me get any Faygo :( But she did get me some Spaz Juice. But it's just not as great as Faygo. No fair.... Grrrr, Vinny won't get online on TSO. I don't know what the deal is. Maybe he's grounded.... All I know is that I owe him money, and I need to pay him before I get 100k because then I won't want to part with any money I get.... And I have 66k right now. I'm making about 10k per day, so he's better get online SOON. Drina: you wanna go hang out at the Dimond mall sometime soon? Before school starts? I need a social boost, I haven't talked to anyone that isn't on the internet for a week.... (Besides family.) TTFN! P.S. Wowza, uber-long entry.... Sorry about that. I just hope you didn't fall asleep in the middle of it....