Monday, April 10, 2006

   I'm your villian.
I just watched �Dateline� with my mom and they were talking about My Space, which I really do think is the devil, no offense to anyone. Anything that allows people to access your phone number and address, even if you don�t know them is just asking for trouble. Well, it got me thinking. Would I want my mom to read the stuff I talk about on here? No, most likely, and for obvious reasons, too. That is why she won�t know about this, at least until I get it all edited.

I�m going to mail Mona�s letter today. It�ll be my first letter to a foreign country and my first letter to Germany at the same time. When Melanie goes back home in May, I�ll start writing her letters. Then I�ll be sending letters to Germany AND Taiwan. How awesome!

I�m really, REALLY going to miss Melanie. She�s one of my best friends, one of the few I look out for on a daily basis. I have a small community of best friends as school right now. The two main people in that group are Martha and Melanie, the two I feel the closest to. Martha has to work a lot and has a lot going on in her life right now, so, when we have to get a print off about something for our English class, I print off two and give one to her. And, for Melanie, the lunch lines are really long at my school due to the high student population (oh, about 2,000). So, I give her half my sandwich (a delish roast beef and cheddar or ham and Swiss) and a granola bar (when I have one) everyday.

I took the ACT on Saturday. Major drag. It�s a stupid test. But, after that, I came home, got some lunch, and went with my parents to see Jay Leno LIVE. It was so cool. I thought it was going to be like, �Okay. So, it�s Jay Leno on a little stage. I�ve seen Neil Diamond on a little stage. He was two inches tall.� But this was so much better. He was at least seven inches tall and so hilarious. It was just amazing. I was like, �Look. That�s Jay Leno. He�s 50 feet away from me. And I�m crying because I�m laughing so hard.�

�Lipscomb University and the Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation presents Jay Leno live.� That�s what they were saying for months on WRVU Nashville (that�s really the only radio station I listen to. They always play music I like). Then my mom comes home with tickets she got from her work. And I had more fun than I�ve had since I went to Graceland with Lisa.

Then we went downtown to the Frist Center for the Arts (it was free admission day because of their 5th birthday). I got to see the �Lost Boys of Sudan� paintings, which were amazing. I think James Makuac is so talented. Then the African Art exhibit. It was very cool. Then, upstairs, Impressionist art. HEAVEN! I love Impressionist art. I felt like one of those over cultured art critics standing there in front of one of Childe Hassam�s paintings and telling my dad about how he wasn�t looking at a woman on a garden path, but little slivers of paint that give the illusion of the woman. I was kind of upset though They had two Monet�s and three Renoir�s, but not one single Degas painting. Is he not as famous as them? Hilliare-Germaine Degas will always be my favorite Impressionist.

Well, I�m not going to be posting any more story excerpts. It kind of draws off my site, I think. So, Michelle, if you really want to read it, I�m going to just send you the whole thing in your email, if that�s okay? I wish I had a kimono. *sobs* You see? That�s what makes you so cool. And that is why you were the first to be added to my friend�s list.

I love Nashville. I love life.
-Susan

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