It's crazy how much stuff you need to do when you leave on a trip. Of course, we're not talking about a one-week-holiday to the Caribbean, but an entire month's leave to Canada.

Canada! I'm so excited! Yesterday it hit me - I really want to go there! I can't wait to see all the people in the camp, I can't wait to finally meet Nicholas and his gang of crazy Canadians. Only thing I'm a bit afraid of is the flight. Everything is going to be so awesome, I just know it.

It feels like I'm leaving for a really long time. I've never left home for more than two weeks, and now it's an entire month. All my friends will have their studies started by the time I get back, and Minna's even moved to Helsinki then. Annika will move to Tampere and explore her artistic qualities. Mirja and Kata will go to the university, and Kaisa starts her Swedish studies. It's only me, Lotta and Saara who're without a studying place and a job...

And oh boy, I think I sort of messed up yesterday. :D

Evelyn, can you give me your post address? I'd really like to send you a letter from Canada, or even from Finland once I get back.

The newest Harry Potter.

-- I have no words.

It was simply amazing. I loved every moment of it, every word, even though I was crying half of the time despite the fact that there was nothing to cry about.

Just -

Wow.

I HAVE A DRIVING LICENSE!

WOOHOO!

MY HIGH SCHOOL IS OVER.

WELCOME, LIFE.

Also, my mom accuses me of anorexia.

Okay, so anyone currently in High School, here's a piece of advice:

Study when you are taught the stuff.

Because you won't learn it two days before your finals. DDD:

I just saw the movie 300 yesterday. MY GOD, WHAT A RIDE. I can't help it, but I loved it. Sweat, muscle, blood, death - awesome.

And I'll be darned if the leading actor wasn't HOT LIKE HELL.

It was, admittedly, cliché and lacking in plot - but I think that was part of what made it so enjoyable. It's based on a cartoon, and I think that the incredibly dry jokes the men threw at each other were fantastic in that sense.

The visuals; oh, the visuals. The movie was amazing to just watch and enjoy.

I'M 18 FUCKING YEARS OLD!!!

Have been, since Tuesday. For obvious reasons, I haven't been in the shape to visit LJ that often after that...

Anyhow, 18! Hell, it's a big number. I feel my bones creaking already.

So, I now have a new operating system.

Goodbye, you son of a bitch, caught-me-at-piratism Windows XP, welcome, Ubuntu.

I hope we'll be the best of friends. If not... I'll just probably commit suicide.

Now I'm no longer a pseudo-nerd, but a real one!

Okay, so here's how my August will go. Nick, and everyone else who is absolutely dying to see me when I arrive in Canada, Saskatoon, in the summer, you'll want to pay attention.

On the 3rd of August the camp'll begin. I'll spend a good three weeks in there, after which I'll spend another few days with the people, which will give me time to leave for the West Coast on approximately the 27th of August (Monday).

Depending on for how long I'm welcome to sleep on someone's couch (Esme? Nick? Lord, I don't even know the people who'll be housing me!), I'll buy flight tickets accordingly. I'm thinking of around five days, but does that sound like too much of a burden?

Also, suggestions for the best airline company inside Canada? Best meaning the cheapest, of course, unless they treat my luggage like a kick-boxing sack.

Exams are killing me. T_T My mom tried to dose me with sleeping pills 'cause I haven't been able to sleep because of all the stress but it turns out I'm goddamn immune to them.

The next day, she made me drink a glass of beer. I fell asleep like a baby.

Anyway, I'll be back on track in a few weeks... Maybe. I might be dead. Send me flowers and visit my grave, it'll likely be somewhere labeled "Those Who Passed Out Due To A Moronic Education System. Rest In Peace."

Anna: *peacefully reading a Last Samurai fanfic*

...It was a balmy autumn eve as Nathan-chan and I lay in our bedroom...

Anna: *shocked silence*

I MEAN. WHAT.

WHAT THE BLOODY FUCK WAS GOING THROUGH THE WRITER'S HEAD AS SHE WROTE THIS SHIT?

WHY THE HELL IS IT NATHAN-CHAN, I'M JUST ASKING.

JUST. WHAT. NO. I.

For some reason, the winter holidays that were supposed to be very relaxing and easy for me, turned into a jimbo of doing-stuff-all-the-fucking-time. Vacations are supposed to be the kind where you lie around the house, bored beyond thought - and that's what makes them seem so long. Now that I've been constantly active, the week jsut fwooshed by and I didn't even notice.

Good times, nevertheless. Spent the weekend with JB-people, baking pulla and eating it (I ate the total of six pullas on Saturday, guah), and running around in Hirvensalo's skicenter. A fairly interesting experiment, The Mano Experiment, also took place during that weekend, but I shall not speak more of it to save the remainders of my dignity. :D

On Sunday, I went to see Letters from Iwo Jima... And I'm sorry Clint Eastwood, but you suck. Royally. What on earth was up with only two of the characters actually being realistic, with the rest of the people being as two-dimensional and as flat as my chest? The only ones worht watching were Watanabe Ken and Nino.

On Monday, I finished watching the third season of the OC... And that sucked, too. I was like, whattheghei, this makes no sense.

On Tuesday, I went to hang around with JB-people more, which was cool, because I'm totally in love with all of them. It's amazing that I've known them for only less than half a year, and I already feel really familiar with them.

Wednesday... Wednesday was schoolwork. Very little schoolwork, but work nevertheless.

On Thursday I went to see this really awesome musical, Thorin Vasara (or Thor's Hammer for non-Finnish people). The male lead was HOT, DAMN, and the whole musical was really cool and poprocketno type of thing, and you should all go see it. Only 27€ for a student! I'm still not over how HOT, DAMN the singer playing Sigurd was - all that dreadhair and kohl and leatherpants and DANG, he was HOT.

Rest of the week will most likely be spent with avoiding parents, because they are arguing all the fucking time. I don't know about others, but I hatehatehate it when my parents fight, and hate it even more when they're so fucking children about it. They never say sorry, they never quit, they keep fighting about old stuff and using it against each other and GAHHH, it drives me NUTS. At least nowadays they have the sense to at least try to fight when me and my sister aren't around.

HUOMENNA PENKKARIT HAHAHAHA!

TJ 26 YOU FUCKERS!!!

Luusereita ne, joilla on vielä VUOSI JÄLJELLÄ!!!

Life is moving at such a pace that I can't keep up with it!

Anyhow, what. My driving-teacher is doing an efficient job in making me go NUTS. I can't believe he hasn't, during all the years he's been doing the job, learned to have a RELAXED ATTITUDE. What the fuck does he think, panicking like crazy when I'm not exactly a ball of calmness myself?

Anyhow, I love driving. I do. I honestly, deeply, love it. XD~ And it's crazy, 'cause I hate people who use cars instead of public transport. But it's playing PlayStation with your whole body... I get incredible kicks from it.

And... It's fucking -20 degrees in here (for Americans, -4 degrees Fahrenheit). It's crazy.

I love Tsuyoshi's new song. I could get high from listening to it all day long.

And Jun's new photos in Anan? PRICELESS.

A few days ago, I was waiting for a bus... And a foreigner drove his car to the bus stop and offered me a ride. T_T My innocence has been violated. How can this happen in Kaarina?

HAHAHAHA CHECK OUT THE BEST JOURNAL TITLE EVER.

gooming night-ear
i cry under my skin

YES, ABC, I LOVE YOUR SONG, TOO.

Okay, can someone tell me why the fuck aqueous solutions of carbohydrates (glucose, fructose and starch) are acidic?

...Chemistry people? Help me? ;_;

Grr. I hear that this nasty thing has been happening lately - people go to my sister and tell her that they don't like me doing this and that and behaving this and that way.

Why can't they come to me right away? It's bound to reach my ears anyway, if my sister at all cares about me.

I mean - who the fuck does that? Who pretends to be my friend and then goes, behind my back, to my own sister, to talk shit of me?

The world is such a queer place.

And so I thought you'd want this opportunity to tell me what you don't like about me. Or, alternatively, tell me whhat you like about me. Or both. 'Cause honestly, I want to know so I can fix it.

I will leave you with this song I might sing, with my sister playing the guitarr, to our class at our graduation party. [Neutral Milk Hotel - Into the Aeroplane Over the Sea] skaze2, if I've at all understood your taste in music, you'll like this one.

HOLY SHIT FUCK YES:



IT'S COMING.

So, that's it, then. My future's finally shaping up.

At the moment, law school it is for me. I'll probably stay where I live now, Turku, since the percentage of those who get in is more here than in Helsinki. I could also consider Tampere.

I'll also probably work a year, since there's no way I can pull off studying for both my finals and the entrance exams at the same time.

And also, aren't these the loveliest shoes you've ever seen? ANNA WANTS.

sally_s, don't you work at the airport? How did you get the job?

*cough* Sane people here (meaning, all those who have no idea what JE is), please excuse the fangirl.

...Hana Yori Dango 2 - I'm torn between an insane, mental love for Shigeru, and Tsukasa and Tsukushi MAKING ME GO NUTS. Also, drama-makers, please don't rely so much on chance, thankyouverymuch (like, how Shigeru got to the Ebisu Garden Place whatthehell at the exactly same time as Tsukushi? And also, when Rui fell on top of Tsukushi? LAME-O~!). But, Rui? TOTALLY SHITLOADS COOLER THAN LAST YEAR. he plays the violin! hot!

Have I been utterly forgotten? Has anyone paid heed to my missing state? ;_;

Dear lord, I never thought school could be so time-consuming. And truly, I don't even know if it's school that's stealing my time, I honestly have no idea where my days disappear. I wake up, I go to school, I get home, and BANG, suddenly it's evening.

Though I do admit that I've been rather occupied by Pride and Prejudice as of late. It's wonderfully, heart-wrenchingly beautiful and romantic. Oh, how I wish every girl could have a husband like that. <3

What news, though? I finally watched Hana Dango 2, and let me just say - please don't try to teach the actors speak English. It wounds the viewers, and I don't believe I'm the only one of this opinion.

Also, MatsuJun? TOTALLY HOT. And Toma. My goodness, I never thought a person could be made so hot and petty-looking.

...And I must confess, Taiyou no Uta's Yamada Takayuki kind of stole my heart. :D I know I've been rocketing all over different Jboys, but here I am again, with a new whoa-he's-hot idol.

BTW, does anyone have the music video from NewS, the new version of Sayaendo? I should dearly like to have it, if it were possible for anyone to upload it.