Eenie meenie catch a meanie, you are the one I meanie.

What a weekend. Just simply Wha-hoaaa!

ABE

i've got a feeling: tired

Goodbye, Rosa Parks. I'll miss you. You were great, and you deserved the long and fruitful life that you had. 92 is no cryin' shame. Rest in PEACE, cause there isn't much here!

ABRAHAM

i've got a feeling: exanimate

I told you I'd update, Bralow! I spent my entire weekend with her (except today, when I worked endlessly on a physics lab, an english essay, and now college essays).

Not gonna get into too many details, but I wanted to mark this one. SO good. The dance? Couldn't have been more successful. I love student council.

The world is your oyster at the school store...

ABE

i've got a feeling: giddy

middle school crushes are SO FUN!

i've got a feeling: enthralled
listen to the music playing in my head: new o.a.r. cd!!!!!!!

Do you ever notice that you've been sitting in front of a screen for hours and that the longer you do it, the more sad it makes you? Talk to me in person, on the phone, somewhere that I don't have to go blind from. It's just better for everyone. I'm going to spend less time on my computer from now on.

ABE

i've got a feeling: annoyed

Everything's ending this week, it's kinda sad. I haven't even updated since camp ended. That's sad in itself.

I don't know where to go with this, but my sister's single, I'm unemployed, Amy's back home, Scott and Liesa didn't last very long, and this all happened in the past few days.

The bakery closed. It was so sad. We worked numbly for hours cleaning it out. I'll miss it, even though I didn't spend much time there. I know that there was a "family" there, and they brought me in and helped me along the way. I feel worse for them than for myself, and there's nothing we can do about it. Sucks.

What a busy year. No time for anything, and when there is it goes by too quickly. At least we hear from colleges soon enough. Speaking of which... I'll finish those applications next week.

I guess I'll see what continues to surprise me coming up; this world has not yet failed to surprise me, especially not this year.

ABRAHAM

i've got a feeling: mellow

I cried my eyes out when I was leaving. So many people I didn't want to leave. I didn't get to say goodbye to everyone, but when have I ever been able to? 10 ends of camp, and this one was the hardest? I don't get it because I know I can go back... but the people I met are so real, and I won't get to see many of them for so long. I'll really miss it all. I already do.

I just can't explain what it's been like.

But here I am... it's just another day.

ABE

i've got a feeling: blank
listen to the music playing in my head: paul mccartney

OPEN THE GATES AND SEIZE THE DAY!

Yeah, I just watched Newsies for the first time. I LOVE IT. I'm in the orchestra for the Junior show version of it tomorrow night and I can't wait. ALSO Karter's in it, but ALSO (yeah he's right over my shoulder) we've been writing the Warrior show this year!! It's really good, can't wait for it... but when will they learn it? OH WHO CARES! The show must go on!

I love it here.

ABE

i've got a feeling: energetic
listen to the music playing in my head: newsies!!

GOING TO MISS THESE PEOPLE A LOT MORE THAN I EXPECTED. Having a great time, don't worry about me. I'm excited to go home, but I'm going to be going through major withdrawal. Wow. Ireland?

ABE

i've got a feeling: chipper
listen to the music playing in my head: screaming and stomping

Summer's flying by! 18 days left of camp. What a bittersweet feeling now. Yay I get to see all of my best friends at home, oh man I'm gonna miss it here. Either way, there's always something to look forward to.

Is it wrong that I'm already worried about the prom/nationals conflict? It's gonna hit me hard either way...

Going out tonight, laundry/pizza/drive-in movie with Kelley. First drive-in ever! Don't even care what I see, as long as I see something. I just want the 50's experience. It'll be awesome.

Great people here, I love them.

The seniors already left for the western trip, they're gonna have the best time. Other trips are going out for seniors too. Camp's gonna get quiet quickly. I wonder when Storyland is coming up...

Visiting days were so hectic, it was insane how tired we all got.

I'm reading The Things They Carried--could I read any more depressing books this summer? So far I've been stuck in communist Russia, attacked by martians, seen my mentor be killed by someone he trusted, and now I'm in Nam. Crazy summer, eh. Soon enough I'll be trying to get home from all of these wacky places, then led through a series of unfortunate events (twice), and then of course blessed by some more beautiful Burgess prose.

It's amazing how many people I have not been in touch with.

It's about time I leave. I wonder if you'll be getting another update from me all summer.

ABE

P.S. I can't wait for the Let It Be DVD and then Concert for Bangladesh.. oh boy! This fall will be AWESOME.

i've got a feeling: calm
listen to the music playing in my head: austin powers is on