Crackers.

I am SO tired.. I don't even know why I'm writing right now- it's probably not going to make any sense.

I had to take the ACT again yesterday. It was absolutely miserable. I took it in December and got a 28, which I guess is okay. The bad thing is that I feel like I managed to do considerably worse on this test than the one in December. And I really want a 32. Argh. My brain is fried.

Bright side: a week from tomorrow, I GO TO ITALY! AHH!!! :D Soooooo excited. I've got my converters and adapters all ready to go, and a new straightening iron :D! Our last Italy meeting at school is at 5:00pm Monday. The only downer to all this is that 1) we can't drink wine, and 2) I'm going to experience THREE time changes over the course of this trip. One when I fly there, and Italy is 5 hours ahead of Eastern USA. The next will occur on March 27, when Italy recognizes Daylight Savings' Time, which has already been recognized here. So we have to "spring forward" and lose another hour of sleep. Again. So that makes us 6 hours ahead of here. The third change is when I come back to good ole Kentucky. I'm NOT complaining. It's just gonna be a hard adjustment. But I totally got this. No biggie :]. World travellers get used to this kind of stuff. Haha.

Gotta go to youth group soon. It's actually kinda fun. Not very stressful, we just kinda play games. We don't really get into any hardcore discussion, but that's something I like about our youth group. It's more of just a "good" place to be. I've never considered myself to be very religious. Idk. But if I get on that one, then I'll be talkin' for a while. So I'll shut up about that :].

For my AP English Lit class, we have to pick novels to do research papers on. I chose Winter in the Blood by James Welch, a Native American author. The story is about a Native American living on a reservation who is struggling to come to terms with his heritage. Most of his immediate family is dead, but he learns about them through an elder, whom he befriends. The character is self-destructive and engages in crazy behaviors, so I guess all that identity crisis stuff is depressing him. Anyway, it looks really good. We're not required to read our novels for the assignment, but I think I'm going to read this one. I bet Mom would like it, too.

Finished reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo today. It was AMAZING. Can't wait to start the second one. Gotta go. /K