NEW FEATURE!

So at the Mountain School (sorry, can't help it!) there was a beautiful soul named Anika who had the most contagious vocabulary. The most popular one was "Yikes!" and the most striking (at first) and heartwarming was her way of replacing the word "hand" with "paw." It makes sense since she's really into cats, and there such a cool story behind that that I think most people don't know.

The point of that was to introduce something new to this blog that will help me be able to put up more and shorter posts on the days when I don't really feel compelled to write about anything specific. Um, time management may also have an influence on how compelled I am...

Anyways! As I'm sure many of us do, I write on the back of my hand a lot because sometimes there's just no time to get out something to write on! It may sound like I'm mocking, but I'm not; I feel you. My left hand (since I'm right handed) is always filled with these random words that have a much larger meaning, interest, or task attached to them. Either that, or it has the left-over smudges.

And a lot of the times when I'm writing on the back of my hand, I'm thinking, "lalalalaaaa, just writing on my paw.." haha This is such a long explanation for something so simple.

What I want to do is have Paw Posts where I just take a look at what I've written on my "paw" for the day, post the words up, and then maybe give explanations behind them. This won't be everyday since I don't record on my hands everyday, but it will happen pretty often. I can imagine it being entertaining sometimes, but mostly be reflection of what's of my mind/ how my day went.

And so I'll start today!

SAT :This one is boring and predictable. I have to make a meeting with my college counselor to send SAT scores to my schools. woot.

[I just realized that this will be so helpful to my memory. Nice!]

existentialism :my nerdy side. This came up in Spanish today, and I know we studied it a little when we read The Stranger sophomore year, but I forgot. So I want to look it up again, yup.

explore

crayola :These are just some ideas for a potential supplement that asks about a time when I just had fun. "Explore" refers to how one of my closest friends and I spent a lot of summer nights just walking around the hood. One time we went up to Fort Tryon Park and heard someone who sounded just like Lady Gaga singing a Lady Gaga song. We were like, "Oh snap! That could be Lady Gaga!" but we couldn't see because there was some intense bushery and treeness (<-- straight out of the Yomalis Dictionary) between us and the Lady Gaga voice. We had to find a way to get to this place, so we went through some twists and turns while discussing whether or not its possible that Lady Gaga was there, and found the cafe/ restaurant in the park where they were hosting a party in what I'll call their really concealed and Troy-like backyard. We couldn't see anything, but we knew very well that it wasn't some sort of Lady Gaga concert (no, I don't know what we were thinking) because the next song that played was just not Lady Gaga anymore. Then, we went down a path we didn't recognize on purpose so that we could get lost and ended up walking through some crazy darkness. I mean, the spot needed some lamps up or something because we were a little freaked out. We reached the end of it, but before returning to light, we just had to look down a creepy stone stairway to find a dark figure at the bottom and ran out dramatically. SO FUN..and an anecdote that went on for too long. Therefore, I won't be explaining "crayola" but its not much anyways.

And that, my friends, was the first Paw Post. Tell if you (dis)like. 

I have something cool to write about for tomorrow!