hello winter.

Wednesday, December 16:
6:45am: alarm [apparently] goes off.
7:06am: snooze alarm wakes me up.
7:07am: realize what time it is, sprint into a shower.
7:17am: start to dry hair.
7:19am: give up on drying hair; settle for wetness and get into uniform.
7:24am: waiting for the elevator...
7:27am: still waiting. start to sprint down back stairs.
7:31am: run around like crazy person looking for cab.
7:34am: shit, it's freezing out here.
7:45am: no cabs in sight. run to bus stop.
7:52am: obviously there aren't any buses coming.
7:56am: start running towards the next stop in hopes of getting to school on time.
7:58am: clearly things just aren't working out for me today...
8:02am: eight blocks away from school, you can do it!!
8:12am: woohoo! make it to school with three minutes to spare!
8:13am: miss the elevator by thirty seconds. must sprint up stairs to ninth floor for physics!
8:18am: make it up the stairs, three minutes late (but i have a late note!!). turn the corner to class and what do i see?
McGowan's 1st period physics class is cancelled.
8:19am: drop all my shit on the floor and pant until perpetually late friend shows up at the door...and laughs at me.
8:22am: said late friend and I make a quick trip around the corner to grab bagels...
8:57am: ...make it back in perfect time for next period. we have a sub teacher who's not even taking attendance. why me?!

....and so my day went on (and on, and on, and on...). I ended up only having two actual classes, which rocks. however it doesn't rock SO much when you schlep your 20 pound book-bag the whole way to school and up 9 flights of stairs JUST to have classes cancelled. blehhhh.

on the bright side, WINTER BREAK STARTS TOMORROW AT APPROXIMATELY 10:40am WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm OH so excited to go to Florida and the beach and pool and warm and YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYY!!

expect an incomprehensible post tomorrow in which i will express my excitement.
WAHOO!!
HAPPY WINTER!!
YAY!
xoxo

quick hello

HAPPY FRIDAY!
Nothing too exciting for me tonight.
Unless, of course, you consider writing a paper about Abraham Lincoln and the Mexican-American War a wild evening :)
Anyway, just wanted to thank my friend Natalee at The Fashionably Late for my AMAZING new banner. THANKS NATALEEEEE :]
I need to start posting more here....I'm gonna try to post once every day, cool?

EEEEK time's a-wasting! Only 5 hours 44 minutes left in the day!
Must get back to Abe!
xx

wow.

i am the WORST blogger ever.
my only excuse is that junior year is quite similar to hell.
i have oh so much to worry about - homework, ACTs, SATs, blahblahblaaaah - and it's keeping me from spending time doing what i love. i can't even remember the last time i was in a darkroom, wrote for FUN, took pictures for me to enjoy and not for my portfolio...the list goes on and on.
and with that realization comes a New Leaf for Aly:

i hereby promise to do all my work, but reward myself with PLAY.

good. now that i got that out in the air, it's time for me to start an english paper due tomorrow first period.
...and as a reward, i'll do it while watching GLEE!

wish me luck!