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Life is quickly balancing itself again. I'm getting caught up on homework tonight (I have two Bio essays done and I'm working on a study guide for Great Works) and I've decided to hold off on the English essay until this weekend. It's just not happing. There's Biology homework due Thursday and Friday and I've got no idea when I'll do it, but it doesn't matter. Mr. Borland was very upset with us when we didn't hand in the essay today, but he did this really annoying passive-aggressive thing. Am I supposed to feel guilty? I've made my priorities and I'm sticking to them. I needed some sleep yesterday and I refuse to feel bad about that choice.

We settled the Florida trip today. We even called to make reservations at the campsites. The final trip looks like this:

April 14-23
Friday --> Leave my house for my Aunt's house in Washington, DC. Arrive there midafternoon.
Saturday--> Head to Tony's Grandparents' Cabin in North Carolina in the morning.
Sunday --> Drive to Myrtle Beach State Park early, spend the day at the beach, and campout overnight.
Monday --> Leave for Tony's grandparent's house and arrive sometime in the evening. Spend the night.
Tuesday--> Leave early to get to Miami. Leave for the Everglades in the evening. Camp there.
Wednesday--> Hang out in the Everglades until the afternoon and then drive to Joe's place in Sanibel. Spend the night there.
Thursday--> Head back to Tony's grandparent's house sometime in the afternoon.
Friday--> Hang out in Tampa or whatever. Spend the night there or head back to Tony's grandparent's cabin depending on how we feel.
Saturday--> Either drive to Tony's grandparent's cabin or (if we're already there) spend the day there.
Sunday--> Drive the rest of the way home.

It should be a lot of fun if we don't kill each other, right? Although I suspect we'll have a great many of misadventures to recount. I'm defenitley going to update this while we're away using wireless internet connections in fast food restraunts and what not.

In other news, I think I got into NYU. The reason I say think is because when my dad called today the lady said "we can't officially say anything about it until April 1, but if you recieved an invitation to the event it's cause to be optimistic. Very optimistic. Wink, wink." So that's good. If financial aid works out then I finally know what I'm doing next year. It feels good to have the future in a bit of perspective. That alone has decreased the stress enormously. I have been so back and forth emotionally the last forty-eight hours.

I also figured out the schedule for the movie and, looking at the days ahead, I'll have plenty of time to both work and make an excellent movie. If I still have a job that is. That's the only piece of the puzzle left to eliminate my troubles and then I'm temporarily content. I'm hoping I can get to Wednesday without any more stress and maybe I'll have a day or two with nothing to worry about. I'm going to miss musical a lot. But holy crap I want some free time.

Oh, and today was Alexa's eight birthday. Pictures:

"Ahhh! I'm eight! I'm going to eat you!" That's a quote.

Walt, Mom, Alexa (in some order)


Jordan and Alexa getting stuff.


Alexa getting earrings or something.


Mom, Walt the Present, and Jordan


I took about thirty pictures of Jordan and this is pretty much the only one where she wasn't covering her face.


Alexa's loot.


Cake.


Candles.


That blurry object is a knife. Kinda scary.


Victory.

Well, that's it. I have more homework to finish so I'm off to do that. I've got musical practice tomorrow. Hopefully work on Wednesday and shows Thursday, Friday, Saturday. So I probably won't update until Sunday. No big loss.