FIRST: a trip to the roc!

THEN: the third eye blind concert!

LAST: a rook piercing!

UNDER THE CUT I HAVE ELABORATED ON SAID ESCAPADES.

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yay, today i’m 18! liz just called me on the phone and said she had a present for me, and it turned out to be the brighton high school choir singing happy birthday to me! i don’t remember doing any singing birthdaygrams when i was in choir, so i feel special : )

to mark the ocassion, i have updated the sidebar about me to read that i’m 18, and i updated the about page similarly (plus added in that i currently have 10 piercings, i forgot to mention that on july 31 when i got my fourth lobes done). so that’s all done.

two more fish died today. that means there is only one left, that weird suckerfish thing. very sad.

after work today, i picked up kayla and chels and we went to ultimate piercings and i got a double upper cartilage piercing (chels got a third on her lobes, and kayla forgot her i.d.). i was a little nervous at first, but that place was as sterile as an operating room—there were biohazard boxes and everything came prepackaged in plastic bags, colour-coded by whether it was disposable or whether it was reused and what kind of sterilization process it went through. our piercer was tony and he was really cool. it turns out he used to live in the house across the street from ours when i was a baby, he even knows who my parents are (”oh, you live in the red house? your dad is a firefighter, right? and your mom’s a paramedic?”). the piercing itself hurt less than my lobe piercings, maybe because those were done with guns. so the actually piercing didn’t hurt, but it hurts now when i poke it. all and all, i’m really happy with this. my mom even said, and i quote, “that looks really cool.”

ah, fridays. ah, fridays that are day fives; fridays that i have no work on; fridays that i have absolutely nothing in particular to do except contemplate whether or not i’ll fill out my college apps or maybe even write my essay.

and after informing my mother that the age to get piercings in nys is actually 16, she said i can do whatever i want (after informing me of the risks, of course). so this is most excellent. in theory i’d love to go out a get an industrial, but i don’t think that would sit well with my dad, or my mom. but you never know.

carly and i noted today at work that all we talk about outside of work is, well, work. so today i’ll only mention that.

i really want another piercing on each ear. but my mom says i can’t because it’s cartilage. i’m not sure, it probably is, but still. more people die in automobile-related accidents than any other non-illness causes, but she still lets me drive. actually, my parents make me drive. i understand that cartilage piercings are more dangerous than lobe piercings, but according to many articles that i have just read, they can be just as safe if done correctly and cared for diligently. there is my ear piercing schpiel. i am quite certain that it will not affect my mother’s views, but hey, i tried.

I’m back! I actually got back yesterday, but I’ve been busy reading Harry Potter! I was so mad that I couldn’t go home on Saturday to pick up my book, I had to wait until yesterday to get it! I’ve been reading for 6 hours total, but I still have 5 chapters to go. A counselor that I work with, Angel, had a copy and I totally envied her all week. I’m leaving tomorrow morning for another 2 weeks, goody(?) As for camp, it was fine. In a brief cap of the last two weeks: I’ve been promoted to a “counselor-like position”, I stayed in a tent by myself in Sunnyside, Harmony quit, I made a new buddy board (I rearranged and painted it so it’s easier for the kids to understand), I got a third hole in each ear, I finished Angels & Demons, I saw Ranger Mike pick up a rock to kill a rabid woodchuck, we got a new 5 person paddle boat, and some other stuff. That wasn’t very brief, but you know.

Later gators!