Say cheese!

I have to admit, I feel pretty ridiculous writing about myself and throwing it out into the Internet as if someone is going to find it interesting...so let me explain the real purpose of this blog.

School starts in a week, and I will be a senior. (AH!!!) I'm so excited, for one thing. I'm about to step into adulthood. College and all the new freedoms that come with it are just a year away. I'm choosing my future right now. As I look at different schools and start applying, as I write my college essays and as I take my final classes at my high school, I am uncovering the rest of my life. I am deciding it, molding it, defining it.

And that terrifies me. Life right now is so simple and comfortable. I know where I will be a month from now: right here, in the same town with the same friends. (Unless something drastic and life-changing happens *knock on wood*).

But a year from now? I have no idea where I will be, who my friends will be, where the friends I have now will be...it's all one big question mark.

I guess tomorrow is always like that, though. We can plan as much as we want, but we are never really certain what the next second holds for us. Life gives us no guarantees. But that reality hasn't ever been as clear to me as it is right now.

So anyway, this is my last year of high school and I want to make it count. I want it to be epic. I want to remember it always!

And of course, I love to write. One day I want to be a novelist. (Yes, I'm incredibly ambitious). It has been suggested to me that it would be quite practical to start a blog. If nothing else, I can practice communicating in a lucid and creative way every day. So...I hope most of what I'm saying is fairly lucid and somewhat creative...

*topic change* Guess what? I had my senior portraits taken today!!! I spent more time on my hair and make-up than I ever have before, and you know what? I looked just like I do every other day of the week. Nothing special.

Another notable topic of discussion: how casual are casual pictures really supposed to be? Because I don't know about everyone else, but I was planning on wearing something a bit dressier than everyday for this picture. These pictures will represent us in the senior yearbook, after all. However, due to a slight misunderstanding and a lack of preparation, I did not realize we were taking the casual pictures today and so I dressed...very casually, in just a run-of-the-mill t-shirt.

I was a bit disappointed, over all. But at least my yearbook pictures will be genuine, right?