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| Sometimes we're real close friends,
we stay up late and talk at night
other times we don't get along,
there are even times we fight
but I know she's always there
and I know she'll always care
she's my sister, I love my sister 
I've given her a great big hug
when she was feeling sad
but then again I've said some things
that have really made her mad
But I know she's always there
and I know she'll always care
She's my sister, I love my sister
This is a story about Joanna. Yesterday she woke up very, very early and went to an airport. She got on an airplane for a while and flew to a land called Chicago. She sat in Chicago for a very, very, very long time because her plane kept getting delayed. Joanna waited. Joanna read a book about economics. Joanna waited some more. Joanna had starbucks. Joanna talked to her little sister on the phone. Eventually, Joanna got on another plane and flew all the way to Pennsylvania. She's there because, well, you see, Joanna's rather smart and brilliant.
So she wrote this speech about freedom. And then she won a competition, and another competition, and another competition. So she is going to a retreat-for-smart-kids-conference-ish-thing in valley forge Meanwhile, Joanna's sister (aka, me) was reading a book and found a word she didn't know the meaning of. So she went all the way upstairs and all the way down the hallway to ask her sister what it meant. And, she wasn't there! (so susanna googled it.) Then Joanna's biggest little sister and her littlest little sister went on a walk and picked flowers. Being the sweet little girls they [sometimes] are, they found a flower that kind of looked like her and decided to give her flowers. but she wasn't there again.
It was just about then that I realized that I don't remember ever being home for more two days without Joanna there at all. I decided to cope by watching barney, playing with her xanga and posting on it (which is much more fun than posting on my xanga.) To Joanna,
Happy belated 18th Birthday and have fun in Pennsylvania doing whatever. Oh, and I've given up on trying to be older than you someday. I don't think it's going to happen.  
She's my sister, I love my sister
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| Last week I turned 18, which means I feel kind of old. But it also means that I got money for Barnes and Noble, so I have about $50 to spend there.  And that means I need ideas about what books/music/movies/other stuff I should buy.....as in I can't get it at the library, or I should read it more than once and mark it up, or I'll need it to survive college next year or something like that.
So....any ideas?
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| Susanna and I went to orientation today for the Mayor's 100 Teens program. We were signing up for volunteer activites and stuff and Susanna kept asking if I could drive her to things.
Susanna: Can you drive me to that?
Me: Yeah, probably.
Lady from program (to me): We have some information for parents down there if you are interested.
Me: Oh, I'm a student.
Lady: (blank stare) Oh, well I thought you looked really young.
Me: smile and nod (What else is there to do?)
Lady: Yeah, I was thinking you looked really young. I was going to ask what face cream you use.
Well I guess any mother with a teenage daughter must be using face cream to make herself look like a 17-year-old. 
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| SAT scores went on-line today. My math score went up 60 points and my overall score went up 50. Thank you, God!! I think I am done devoting $40 Saturday mornings to fillings in bubbles on an SAT answer sheet.
Today was end of the semester presentations and a party for Writing, Rhetoric, and Western Civilization. Tomorrow is my last Anatomy & Physiology class. And PHC classes start next Wednesday. Yay! Summer break actually sounds rather nice right now, but I'll try to get that notion out of my head and get ready to be a very part time (4 credits) quasi-DL college kid for the summer.
Nationals is sooner than I care to think about. I'm not even going to think about how many Extemp articles I'm behind on.
This probably sounds really silly, but it still makes me happy in a weird sort of way. I can drive in Denver. by myself. I got up at 5:30 this morning, got dressed up like I was going to work, drove to Denver, walked into a big office building, took an elevator and met with a radio station about conference publicity. And then went and did debate prep. for nationals. And there was horrible traffic on the freeway, but I survived and I don't think I got honked at. Well, maybe once, but I think they were honking at someone else. So yeah, that's really pathetic. But for some reason it felt kind of significant to this sheltered homeschool kid who lives half an hour from a freeway and has pretty much always wanted to grow up right away.
And it also felt kind of weird because I'm finally almost "grown up". Aka I turn 18 in a few weeks. That just feels weird.
Umm....does having three caffeineted drinks in a day do anything horrible to your body? I really hope not. Susanna is going to think this is disgusting, but I've had coffee and two cans of soda pop today.
So tonight was an end of the year party for our homeschool group. I was eating dinner and talking to this mom whose kid took classes with this group but who I hadn't really met. We'd been talking for a little while and I told her my name and she said, "Oh, you're Joanna Griffith!" It was one of those, "Wow. I've heard of you" type things. And then she met my mom and said, "Oh, you're Heidi Griffith!" I never know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing..... 
Anway, sleep deprivation has put me in in a rather random mood, so that probably all sounded kind of disjointed But that's my life right now. And I'm off to go write a Journalism article about the National French Exam that I need to turn in tonight.
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| Redo....because I was tired of my old one and I like city skylines at night.
It's been a long time, and it feels like so much happens and I forget all the little things so quickly.
RMC was.....
-debating right in downtown Denver.
-letting Marla and Susanna make me their Frankenstein for a morning....not sure if that was a good thing, but that's what Marla called me.
-qualifying Impromptu to regionals (the one event I need to be a regionals ironwoman).
-stressing over a silly attempt to match Seattle and watching God take care of everything.
-getting the sweeps award I never really thought I'd get.
Gold Standard was....
-qualifying OO and Impromptu (total surprise).
-watching so many good friends qualify.
-being a few judges away from ironwoman (argh), but so thankful to be going to nationals in debate and 4 IEs.
-trying to compete with a head cold, dry throat, and cough. ick.
-deciding to take a ton of Emergen-C before nationals to hopefully make up for the lack of sleep and still not get sick. I know that's not medically sound, but whatever.
-being told that my eye contact was too predictable.
-carrying a debate bag up and down more stairs than I wanted to know was possible.
-walking to Starbucks downtown with Josh, Mackenzi, and Karyn (we found the perfect outfit for Chloe in one of the shops) and standing outside talking for a long time while Josh told us about all the shootings in that area within the last week. And this is why we take guys along as body guards???
And the rest of life has been.....
-school. duh.
-Rebelution conference planning.
-finding out Susanna and I are part of the Mayor's 100 Teens program here for the next year.
-a really surprising letter from National Merit Scholarship offering to refer me to two colleges of my choice. I'm almost positive I won't make semi-finalist, but this is still more than I expected. My top two schools = PHC and something else. Not sure what. I need to decide so I can submit my requests.
-Making plans for this summer. Is anyone going to Summit in CO this year? I'm thinking of going in August.
God is good. And this song just seems to fit so often.
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
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