The last week has been a rush of touring colleges, doing homework, negotiating test scores, taking practice-SATs and practice-APs, being tutored, filming "Jaime Bond" for my spanish class, trying to keep up with the back-row tap class, being social for a change, hanging out with underclassmen, playing guitar again for the first time in over a year, repairing relationships, jamming to Dylan on my harmonica decently well, writing like crazy, chasing journalists, and being called a hippie in various forms.

It all started when I used the word "descalzarse" in spanish class (to take off one's shoes). From there it was discovered that I sit in empty buildings and write when I run into them and that I was mistaken for a homeless person the weekend before last. I'm no longer just a hippie in their eyes. I'm a squatter. It's gotten to the point where when I say that I don't really like ACDC, DaSilva just says "yeah, but you're a crazy hippie feminist and shit."

While it's true that I have some kind of liberal habits, como descalzarme, I also do a lot of un-hippie-ish things, like:
get a rush out of studying for the AP english test
break down
fight with my parents
not get stoned, high or drunk (much)
dedicate myself to the newspaper every quarter
eat meat uninhibitedly
enjoy physics and calculus
openly piss off Charlie Blank (google-proofed, he uses a c, not a k)
cut Jazz Vocal to do work
act possessive
be an emotional strain on everyone in general
resist non-coed colleges
resist a lot of non-mainstream colleges
judge people
be materialistic
read and listen only to semi-classic books and music
be uptight in general
enjoy really nerdy things, like graphic novels, superhero movies and French silent films
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Actually, I kind of wish I didn't do most of those things, with the exceptions of enjoying things and pissing off Charlie B., and maybe the newspaper. Anyway, I maintain that they're mislabeling me.

I'm in such a good mood, though, that I don't care.

It feels so good to write. I have a million things on my mind that I usually supress for a variety of reasons, and it's nice to feel like I'm learning something about myself for a change. I even tackled the "why I write" question today.

Something in me really likes being busy.