I'm not a criminal. It's official. All of the charges for my parking lot scooter fiasco were dropped and I'm officially out of debt and trouble and it feels quite nice. The funny thing about it was the fact that my charges were a complete joke in comparison to all of these multiple DUI, 50 over the speed limit in a stolen car criminals who I was sitting next to in the court room. The judge said something to the affect of, "Let me get this straight, you were driving a scooter without a helmet in a parking lot going 15 miles per hour?" The courtroom got a nice laugh out of that one. My last day of cashier training in Downtown Phoenix is tomorrow too. I already knew how to do everything that was taught today just because I've already been cashiering on and off for about six months now, but I guess now that I went to training, it's official. With the exception of last night, I really haven't hung out with friend this week or even talked to any of the people I care about. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing, but I'm becoming increasingly independent as the weeks go on. I don't know what it is, but I feel like people have really let me down this year, and it's kind of a relief when I can just go do things on my own and spend the night doing nothing but taking pictures or playing guitar without having to worry about improessing anyone or entertaining anyone, there's something so ligitimate about that whole concept to me. It's not that I don't care about these people, because I do, but it's getting harder and harder for me to relate to them, and at least with my classmates, I'm just not like them. I never thought I'd throw away the kind of social reputation I'd had in high school, but I recently realized just how un-important something like that actually is. I can still be compassionate and love my friends like the day is long, but I'm not going to spread myself so thin like I would in years past. I'll keep my friends close and I won't try to make everyone happy. And I'm not doing the freaking musical @ my school either. Very "out of character" right... wrong. I don't want anything to do with that kind of drama and elitism in excess of what I get in my three daily choir classes. So I'm gonna get going, I've got some nutty bars and milk calling my name, but I will be on again soon... and if I don't see you guys, HAPPY NEW YEAR!