Maxigumee

November 2005

The inevitable “I’m so freaked out about college” entry

November 30, 2005 – 9:01 am

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I’m an eensie bit scared about this college application thing. Like most things that seem far off, it feels like you have ages to get everything done. Ages until you find yourself one month before all applications are due and with only two applications filled out! That’s NOT counting transcripts! I am so freaked out right now. I have like…. three more schools that I’m applying to.

I applied to FIT yesterday. At first, I didn’t want to apply to FIT because it seemed too mainstream. Last night, though, I decided that since it’s the art school with the best web design, they might just know what they’re doing. And Calvin Klein went there. And I have a lot of Calvin Klein pants. So that’s pretty cool. Plus, you know, I’m sure their photography program isn’t all that bad, either.

Now the only schools I have left to apply to are Brooklyn College, Pratt, and School of Visual Arts. And this is why I’m scared. I printed out the transcript form for FIT last night and I brought it to my guidance counselor this morning. She didn’t say it, but she had this look on her face that said, “OH MY GOD. YOU ARE GETTING THIS IN SO LATE. DIDN’T YOU KNOW THAT YOUR APPLICATIONS HAD TO BE DONE LIKE A YEAR AGO?? YOU ARE GOING TO DIE. YOU ARE GOING TO DIIIIIEEEE!!!!” …. Or I might just be paranoid.

Still. I really need to get all my applications in. AND visit colleges. I went to Pratt’s National Portfolio Day in New York about a week ago. But that was a waste. I only made it to Pratt since every other school had like seven hundred million people in its line. I really should have just scheduled private portfolio reviews. Like I’m going to have to do now. And I’ll have to do that by like tomorrow. (FREAKED OUT.)

In other news, it’s supposed to be sixty degrees today. Weird.

November 28, 2005 – 10:55 am

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It’s starting to be that forgetful time of year again. Probably because there are so few days of school in November and December and I don’t check my planner frequently enough. I completely forgot that I had an outline due in Evolution today. At least it’s just an outline. I don’t think those count for much. And right now, I’m skipping gym (with permission, of course) because I don’t feel well. I’m trying to remember whether or not I have a test in Government today. If I do, I am so not ready…. Considering that I didn’t do the reading or anything. Rrrr! My short term memory sucks!

This time of year is lovely for procrastinating, too. It’s either too cold and nasty for doing work or too comfy and cozy for doing work. Either I am obsessing about people tracking dirt and snow into the house or I’m drowning in a sea of high thread-count pleasure while watching TV for hours. I was supposed to read like a bagillion pages of Crime and Punishment for Literature, too. Didn’t quite finish that, yet….

Harry Is Getting Scary.

November 23, 2005 – 7:45 pm

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Holy effing crap. I just got back from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (my third viewing) with Adam. On the way back to drop me off, we discussed a few of the things that we liked and disliked about the movie. Like how Hermione is completely insane and on the verge of hysteria the entire movie. But anyway. The really interesting thing in the conversation happened when we started comparing this one to the third movie.

Adam brought up how he had rewatched the third movie after he had read the sixth book. “Do you remember when Fred or George or whoever asked Ron how he would feel if he was thrown off the top of the Astronomy Tower?” OHMYGOD HOLY MOLY GASP.

“Ohmigawd. Oh my god! Yeah! Remember when J. K. Rowling said in the special features that there were things in the third movie that were in the sixth book and that it scared the crap out of her since she hadn’t even written it yet? I thought it was just the Ron and Hermione holding hands thing!! Ohmygosh!”

Does anybody else think that Steve Kloves is officially creepy? Like going-into-J. K. Rowling’s-house-at-night-and-stealing-her-secret-notebooks creepy? Because, really! Astronomy tower? Thrown off? SIXTH BOOK?!!!

And then Adam was like, “I also think that after watching this movie that Dumbledore really isn’t who we think he is.”

I was like, “Yeah, I remember when you said that after reading the fifth book that you thought that Dumbledore might be evil. And what with the whole, ‘I think Harry should participate in the tournament’ and the ‘I think you should ignore your dreams’ things, I think you might be right.”

“Yeah, that, too…. But remember when Barty Crouch Junior was in Moody’s office and he had his dark mark out? And he was like, ‘I’ll show your mine if you show me yours?’ I swear, he was looking RIGHT AT DUMBLEDORE.”

Okay, now. Everybody. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

“You could save on a twelve pack.”

November 14, 2005 – 9:25 pm

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FADE IN: INT: KITCHEN TABLE.

DAD is holding a Girl Scout cookie box.

ME: The Girl Scouts are so much better than the Boy Scouts. They have better badges…. Like a badge for dancing or acting or something…. Boy Scouts have badges for things like, “I learned how to tie a knot today!” And Girl Scouts have cookies. Boy Scouts have to sell freaking popcorn in tins. Nobody wants popcorn in tins.

ANA: I want popcorn in tins.

DAD: The Boy Scouts should sell condoms.

FADE OUT.

As Martha says, “It’s a Good Thing.”

November 7, 2005 – 4:40 pm

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Today is the BEST DAY EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE PLANET AND THE UNIVERSE IN TIME! Seriously. Everything is going EXACTLY THE WAY I WANT IT. It’s like the world is reading my mind and being like, sorry for giving you such a crap week last week, is there anything I can do to make it up to you? Because, really, that’s what it’s like.

I went to school this morning, absolutely loving my outfit. I was completely confident strutting around in my hand-knit scarf and my red t-shirt with a cow on it. Don’t you love days like that? Like, you’re not sure about your outfit at first, but as the day goes on, every time you look in a mirror, you’re like, “ohmygod, I have such good taste!” Yeah, that’s fun.

Fourth period, I was just sitting around since my teacher sometimes doesn’t teach us, and I hear my name being called. I think I’m just imaging it, but then I turn around and this girl is calling my name. She’s like, “Max, do you shop at American Eagle?” I say I do. She works there and asks me if I want a coupon. It’s one of those friends and family days where you get like 20% off of their new line if you get invited and bring the coupon. So that’s pretty cool! I was planning on going to the mall next weekend anyway!

Thennn…. The library was closed today, so I signed out of school early (because I’m a senior and I rock). Since it’s like two periods before school ends, I usually have to trek through the ghetto that surrounds my school all the way back home. Not today! A few blocks away from school, I hear something that sounds an awful lot like “M–x!” But I figured I was just hallucinating again or something. The shouting continued, though and I looked around me to see who was calling my name over and over again. Ta-da! It was Cecilia! She had just taken the subway back from a field trip and was walking back home, too! So we could walk back together! Yayy!

As we were walking back, I hear my name called again. “Max! Hey Max! Do you need a ride?” It was two of my mother’s friends. Um… yes, of course I’d like a ride! Cecilia and I crossed the street. I was like, “ohmygosh, everything is just working out!” and I snapped my fingers a few times to symbolize things working out.

When I got home, I watched the usual Ellen and Martha that I had taped during the school day. Then I went online. In my e-mail was the weekly “This week on Martha!” e-mail with the list of all of this week’s guests. And on Thursday….. DANIEL RADCLIFFE is going to be on Martha! HARRY POTTER is going to be on Martha! Needless to say, I was excited! But, oh, the universe wasn’t done giving me wonderful things. I’m going to have to pinch myself to make sure I haven’t died and gone to talk show heaven because….. Not ONLY is Daniel Radcliffe going to be on Martha, but MARTHA is going to be on ELLEN. I have been DREAMING (really, I have!) of such a show! My two favorite talk show hosts COMBINED. Excuse my while I wipe the saliva off of my keyboard.

So. There’s that. And then there’s the fact that this week is also full of weird celebrity goodies. Later this week on Ellen, there is going to be Jake Gyllenhaal and Jennifer Aniston! Then! Tomorrow, on Ellen, John Cusack is going to be on. And on THE SAME DAY, Joan Cusack is going to be on Martha! And to wrap all of this TV show goodness off with a little ribbon, Pamela Anderson was on Ellen today and if you know me, you’ll know that the TV show “Stacked” is one of my many guilty pleasures.

As I told this to a few of my friends after I discovered all of this brilliant news, one of them told me that I should go out and buy a lottery ticket. I really should! But then….. I don’t want to end up like Hurley on “Lost.” Everything was going great for him on his lucky day until he won the lottery….. I need to stop talking about TV.