So. This is it, huh? 2008 is coming to an end.
I wish I could say I'd be "sad to say goodbye to 08" and stuff. But I'm ready to say I survived it. 2008 was not that great of a year for me. Summer was...amazing beyond imagination. But I was very very sick the first part of 2008, and many of my 08 memories aren't that great. I'm definitely ready to move on to what 09 has in store.

i want you to know that when surveys ask me where I was New Years 08, all I can say is I was watching Kyle XY. For a while, that was all I did haha. But for New Years 09, I'm going to be screaming and laughing and skating with my friends at the rink, I'll welcome the new year openly with a kickoff to remember. And I'm proud to say that.

Reflections.
I'll always remember this summer. Summer 08 is so unforgettable. Between band camp, film camp, and talking to my (new) friends until 3 in the morning, summer brought a lot of smiles and happiness. I've made some good friends this year, really good ones. I'm confident that I've made good choices in friends, and that they're actually in it for the long run. I used to not have that confidence. I look forward to lunch now, because of the people I sit with. I text people and hang out with them on the weekends, and we laugh and we have fun. I used to not have that either, not in the beginning of 08. But now I'm getting that, and I'd very much like to keep it.


The future.
Everyone has the..."New Years Resolutions" right? Well. I'll list em, and put them on here when I think of them. I'm ready for summer 09, and definitely the start of my next school year. I'm excited for what's coming at my new school, really excited. That's definitely something to look forward to. I don't have any resolutions yet, but does anyone really keep them? I'll just aim to be a better person, how bout that? ^_^

I hate it when friends tell friends "I don't like you anymore, because you changed." I always think "How is that a bad thing?" Change is part of growing up. You have to find yourself, right? I want to change. But in a good way. Change as in, learn more, see more, and do new things. Ya know. Change.
I'm not supporting Obama when I say this.
But in 2009, I'm hoping for change.

I want to keep the memories of 2008, good and bad.
They're important. Even though I hurt a lot, I learned so much. I'm wayy more mature and stuff. Hehe. But really, I don't regret a single thing from this year. There's not one thing I look back on and say "I wish that didn't happen". Because everything happens for a reason. And it's made me, well...me, because of it.

Well...I'm not sure how to conclude this. But I guess with...
BRING IT ON 09
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

Well here we are. It's New Years Eve, we're so close to 2009. Ever since...August I've been saying "Oh I'll do a conclusion to my California posts and then on New Years Eve I'll do a conclusion to the year 2008 and be able to start over in 09." That hasn't exactly worked out. I've putting off and putting off my conclusion to California. I don't know why, maybe I'm just lazy or maybe there's some psychological reason a very expensive therapist will be explaining to me in 10 years. Who knows. So maybe just maaaaybe...I can fit them both into one day.

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California.
I love how when I'm taking a survey and it says "Ever been arrested?" I can say "almost", honestly.
I love how every time I see a picture of Jamba Juice or someone mentions it, I smile like craaaazy.
I love how I can walk into Best Buy, walk by a random camera, and give you a full on synopsis of what it can do.
I love it ^_^

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I remember when we were at camp me, Ryan, and Siddhi were saying how we'd go back to school and have story upon story to tell of our experiences. I've told maybe...what...3 people?

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Going to California was the best experience of the year, maybe even my life (so far).
I constantly recall the little memories and stories of what happened.
They're almost too special to explain to someone, because they're not going to see the significance the way I do.

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Like when me and Ryan were in the lab at night and my chair collapsed and I fell into the green screen, hit my head on the wall, and laughed all the way down to the ground.
Or when me and Ryan would badmouth our counselor behind his back!
And the time we all got seperated and tried looking for each other and Ryan jumped out from the staircase and scared us.
I'll never forget how me and Ryan would be in the lab and hear voices and keys jingling by the door, and footsteps too, and he'd yell "Come in!" and nothing would happen. So we'd walk to the door, open it, and see nothing within walking distance of the lab.
It was also amazingly cool when I forgot my name tag and had to sneak into the cafeteria just in time for the fire alarm to go off and clear the entire building, because the kitchen caught fire.
And me and Ben would play this game where we'd throw a...I don't remember, some kind of ball like a basketball or something, at each other. And played a game where we kept throwing it back and forth and had to think of a random word each time we threw it.
I will never ever forget falling off the Indo Board.
I will never ever forget the cosmos, and how they wore underwear outside of their body and all the computer kids thought they were SO weird.
And oh yeah.
I will never ever forget the beach there.
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Post 1: California Babee
Post 2: Where's Ben?
Post 3: Misplaced
Post 4: Misplaced P.2