It’s kind of boring not being allowed to run or basically walk much at all, but I’m trying to do stuff to keep busy.  Yesterday my mom drove me around to a million different places where I picked up a bunch of job applications, so hopefully somebody will hire an sub-16-year-old to work for the fall (late birthdays can be very inconvienient sometimes!)  Maybe they will if you work for minimum wage. Anyway, I decided to apply at….

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as well as a bunch of other places, such as Mahoney’s (which I can’t seem to find a picture of…strange.)  But I don’t really care where or for how much, as long as it’s something to do! It’s my coping strategy for not being able to do field hockey, which is extremely sad   But I shall deal, even though I feel like a loser about it

What else have I done….? well, last night in the middle of the night I suddenly looked around at the massive piles of 4th-grade novels all over my room that I’ve been reading to aviod the Grapes of Wrath, and for some reason I went insane.  So I started obsessively organizing all of the books into piles of stuff that I don’t want anymore, and ended up reorganizing the whole big book shelf.  Some of the books I really had to pry myself from because they’re such addicitions for when I’m procrastinating (namely the Sweet Valley Twins, I’ll admit it)  Others I would have happily given away, but I had to make myself keep them.  A good example of this would be…oh yeah, the Riddle of the Compass!  Right, and also the Riddle of the Compass.  And did I mention the Riddle of the Compass?  But um, that’s…just…one example…  

So I know that arranging books sounds really uninteresting but amazingly it passes time!  And maybe when people return from all of their camps and jobs there’ll actually be something else to do!  Al, Han, and Tessa should all be coming home this weekend :).  The only other thing I can think of is that yogurt has gelatin and that I ate a banana that was too green yesterday but today they were yellow. 

And since bananas always seem like a good place to end a xanga, I guess that this is it.