AP Extremely Tired of School!!!

Is it summer yet? Ugh. We just got another AP Extreme project. This time, it's answering the question of what makes us human. I think I might go nuts. There are so many ways to answer that question and so very few of them are solid and inarguable. GROWLSNARLSNUFFLESNORT! At least I'm working with a partner this time. Honestly, I didn't expect to be working with anyone half helpful, but as it turns out, I must have gotten lucky this time. We're only a week in, though, so it might just be the "novelty" effect at work. Oh well, we'll see.

I'm sick! I think I have a cold, but normally I don't get THIS sick from a cold . . . Ughs! Oh well. Richard said he might come visit me this weekend, so maybe I'll be able to convince myself to get nice and healthy before too long. In any case, I appreciate the willingness to visit me in my isolated hermithood while I live in Sunriver. It looks like it's going to be a long, lonely summer though. Alas. . .

Lessons from a While Ago...

Here we are--or here I am, at least-- at the end of Junior year. And what a year it has been. I think I've learned more this year, both socially and academically than almost any other year I can remember. Maybe at some point, we stop learning new things and just relearn what we already know in a different way. If that's the case, I hope I have a long time before I reach that point, because I know theres a lot more learning for me to do. Someday, I hope I can remember all the lessons this time in my life taught me, and I can teach those lessons to others. But if there is anything I have learned this year about the nature of the human condition, it's that some lessons aren't meant to be taught. They're meant to be learned. That is to say, no matter how many times someone else tries to teach you something, or warn you about trusting someone, or keep you safe from yourself, it won't make sense until you've experienced that lesson for yourself. Whether by trusting someone who betrays your trust, or loving someone who breaks your heart, or making decisions that only serve to bring you down; some things, you have to find out on your own.