Look Up

Hello there.

As it often is with me, I feel awkward. Although I am somewhat of a veteran of online blogs, this is a new place for me and I have yet to find my voice. It's exciting, too, though, to see "ohhh you can blog from your CELL PHONE" and all these cool feautures, all new to me. Hopefully this will work out as a good place to write.

Starting this coming Tuesday, I'm going to be a junior in high school. At Jesuit. Which is, as my friends most likely know, an unusual school in that it is terribly affluent ... terribly being the operative word, unfortunately. There's a high level of competition in academics, sports, the social ladder, and dear old Jesuit has been known to swallow many teenagers, desperately trying to find their place and learning how to cope with the fact that here, this person as an individual will never be the best at anything. But we as a school will be good at everything.

I write this with the intention of sounding tongue-in-cheek, just to clarify. There is a lot of anomosity towards Jesuit, and completely understandably. If it's not obvious, I, too, have a lot of anomosity towards my high school. Registration was today: the long process of ardous lines and heavy books and school ID photos. Bound to be hellish, but I think it's safe to say that my less-than-positive attitude towards the whole ordeal made it that much more enjoyable. Anyways, we start Tuesday, as I said. One of my closest friends leaves for Northeastern University in Boston the day after. It should be a lot of exciting emotions and sources of anxiety for one week!

But I'm through being sarcastic and bitter. For now.

"Here comes the rain again, falling from the stars.
Drenched in my pain again, becoming who we are.
As my memory rests, but never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when September ends."
[Green Day]

posted by Allison Francis @ 3:05 PM