today was an excellent day, and i owe it all to the beautiful necklace that lauren gave me for christmas - thanks so much again, love!!
so okay, i'm almost not feeling like the failure (okay, fine, near failure) i am. i'm compensating the lost points of my spanish average by writing extra credit for english which is bound to bring that average up a point or two, which isn't quite the three points i need to recover, but it will at least ease this dissatisfaction a little.
yesterday i came home after school and literally collapsed on my bed for a few hours. i woke up and made my dad drive me to pep band (no way was i driving in the snow). i was not pepped in the least. alas! it was the best game everrrrrrr. our little upper class white boys were having the court wiped with their asses by central (a bunch of 22 year old high school students.) it got kind of ugly. one of central guys like lost a tooth or got a concussion or broke a rib or something (i dont know - i'm just in the band, we werent really paying any attention). quite inappropriately, we played tequila while we were all waiting for the ambulance. when we got yelled at by cheerleaders, sarah (corey's girlfriend) and i apprehended katie's awful cosmo mag and read about our bedside horoscopes for 2005 and butt shape ups (the model has high heels on. i dont know about you, but i do all my butt shape up exercises in heels.) once the game finally started again, the guys were out for blood. our team made a beautiful comeback as led by tom but it fell just short. which, to be honest, i'm kind of happy about. because i'm willing to bet that if central lost, there would have been a drive by shooting in the parking lot.
i got home around 1030, drowned half a pot of coffee, and proceeded to work on an english essay until 3. gotta love waking up and having to literally edit something in every line. no worries, caffeine induced essays are my specialty. at any rate, i got to sleep in due to the snow delay, then just went in even later because i felt like it.
after school today liz and i went to tealuxe on thayer (mmm papaya tea). it was splendid and i had been looking forward to it all day. i also bought 7 dollars worth of candy and proceeded to eat every ounce with nary a care. take that.
i really need to stop listening to so much crack the sky we sent out the s.o.s. call. a hole in the hull defied the crew's attempts to bail us out. your tongue is a rudder. the vessel groans; the ocean pressures its frame. they say that the captain stays fast with the ship through still and storm. (this is the end.) this story's old, (this is the end) but it goes on and on until we disappear.
it was a quarter past four in the morning when the storm broke our second anchor line.
four months at sea, four months of calm seas to be pounded in the shallows off the tip of montauk point.
they call them rogues; they travel fast and alone--
one-hundred-foot faces of God's good ocean gone wrong.
what they call love is a risk, 'cause you'll always get hit out of nowhere by some wave and end up on your own.
it flooded the engine and radio and half-buried bow.
it steers the whole ship, sends your words past your lips, or keeps them safe behind your teeth.
but the wrong words will strand you, come off-course while you sleep, sweep your boat out to sea or dashed to bits on the reef.
to the port i see the lighthouse through the sleet and the rain.
and i wish for one more day to give my love and repay debts, but the morning finds our bodies washed up thirty miles west.
but this ain't the dakota; the water's cold. (so cold.)
won't have to fight for long.
this story's old, (this is the end) but it goes on and on until we disappear.
(this is the calm.)
calm me and let me (this is the calm) taste the salt you breathed while you were underneath.
(we are the resin)
i am the one (we are the resin) who haunts your dreams of mountains sunk below the sea.
(after the storm.)
i spoke the words (after the storm) but never gave a thought to what they all could mean.
(rest here with thee,)
i know that this (rest here with the) is what you want.
(washed up on the beach.)
a funeral keeps both of us apart.
you know (washed up on the beach) that you are not alone.
i need you like water in my lungs.
(this is the end.)
(this is the calm.)
calm me and let me taste (this is the calm) the salt you breathed while you were underneath.
(we are the resin)
i am the one who (we are the resin) haunts your dreams of mountains sunk below the sea.
(after the storm.)
i spoke the words (after the storm) but never gave a thought to what they all could mean.
(rest here with thee,)
i know that this (rest here with thee) is what you want.
(washed up on the beach.)
a funeral keeps both of us apart.
you know (washed up on the beach) that you are not alone.
i need you like water in my lungs.
(this is the end.)