current song: lovesong - the cure

urk. valentine's day is coming up. this day always depresses me. there's always someone i'd like to be spending the day with, but i never do, of course. it's odd, though, to think that it's the same person this year as last year. of course, i don't really remember valentine's day last year all that well. i think talia got some huge stuffed animal from foy, or something, and then they broke up the day after valentine's... eh. who knows. still, it kind of sucks to spend valentine's day alone. the day is a celebration of romantic crud, so if you don't have a boyfriend it's just another day to watch the pda, happy couples, and candy being passed around. ick.

enough of my bitterness. today cleaning people came to our house and... cleaned. mum has decided she wants a maid service so that our house isn't quite so disgusting. but, it's kind of amazing, what they did. they worked for 6 hours. yeesh. there were 3 of them, too. now my bathtub/shower is spotless! i'm so happy. no more icky, strange yellow and pink splotches. hooray!! the shower's white, for the first time since we bought the house!

after school was rather interesting today. the spanish teacher had previously given us a lecture saying "habilidades" isn't a word. but, i saw it in our a.p. exercises we were doing today (again). so i show her, and she goes, "yeah, i saw it too, and i looked it up in the dictionary. when you look up "ability" the word it gives is capacidad, but habilidad IS in the dictionary as well..." so ha!! but, yeah... that was exciting. so, i talked to chaffin some, interesting, then called my mum to find out about the going home situation. since mum couldn't leave the house to pick me up until the cleaners were gone. so i find out they're not done. i go to the library, see no one, so i think i'll go to parsons' mobile and schedule a meeting for wednesday. oh joy. but it'll be good, i'll be doing my abstract. otherwise it probably wouldn't be getting done. and i wrote "peace" on the whiteboard in japanese/chinese. lovely. i'll see if it's still there tomorrow morning. then, i wandered off, and called nikki to see how she's been doing. fun. then, on the way to my locker, i saw zackis. heh. so we said hi. i'm kind of happy that he remembers me, and all. so, then, locker, nothing too exciting. then up to the library to wait for the 8th period tok kids. erm, that is, baylee and srav. who arrived presently. so i hung out with them, wandered around as they made various trips to classrooms and offices. lovely. so, that was fun. and after ninth, i talked to joe for a while. and saw chris playing lacrosse in the parking lot. i go, "hey, it's chris!" and joe asks me if i like him. umm... no. but still cool.

so then mum picks me up. we go to target. we buy stuff. wheeee! then we go home and walk the dog, and then back out again to office depot and dinner at chili's. aargh. and we didn't get back till 9.... i really need to have more productive afternoons. i'm getting no homework done whatsoever.

oh, and, the amc math test thingy happened today. gah. i totally sucked on that. i left over half of it blank, i think, and the rest... i THINK i got them right, but i'm not quite sure. oh, well, not like it counts for anything. and at least i didn't have to do a report on a mathematician, like matt does, since he didn't sign up to take the test.