THE BLOG OF JESS

Hello. How are you? My junior year of high school is doing pretty well. Overall, I'd say I'm happy. I definitely more busy this year. Gotta do those things that'll appeal to college applications, y'know? (Even though I barely have a clue on what I want to do, or what college I'd like to go to...) I don't remember if I've mentioned any of this before. I've been trying to not post regular blog posts until I've finished typing out my entire summer adventures, but ugh, there's so much to write, and I just don't feel like writing it sometimes. I have a couple days left to write, and then I have my final summer weekend, which I spent in Virginia. 
SO ABOUT MORE CURRENT EVENTS!
AP Language and Composition is a less intimidating class than I had anticipated. From what I can tell, it's easier than the Advanced Honors English class (which is supposed to rank lower than AP). They're reading all those classic pieces of literature that is written in an older version of English, with different slangs, and stuff. Meanwhile I'm reading a bunch of speeches and articles, analyzing every single detail. For instance, you wouldn't think that the speaker's use of 'he, they, we, I, me' aren't so important, but it iS VERY IMPORTANT. It contributes to the tone, and the overall message of a speech. I've learned how to present an argument effectively. I'm not going to dwell much into that because this isn't English class.
My dear friend, Bailey, her mom is currently in the process of opening a coffee shop called Java Joe's. It's biking distance from my home, maybe, like, a 20-30 minute bike ride. Not bad! I plan on being a loyal customer there. When the news was released to the public, (I got first dibs on this coffee shop knowledge. Best friend privileges, man.) at school, it seems like anyone who remotely knew of Bailey was saying they were going to try to get a job there. Like, not even friends with Bailey, but people who just knew of her. Bailey has complained on how annoying it is. She's fine with having the Nerd Herd working there, but those other peeps need to lay off, basically. 
So, I'm excited for that to open up so I can eat sandwiches and things there. Not coffee though, I don't drink coffee. And yeah, if you were wondering why I'm not going to try to apply there (and I'm sure I'd get in. Again, best friend privileges), there are two main reasons. 1. I don't drink coffee. That'd just be ironic and weird. And 2. I'm allergic to tree nuts, and other people like to have those fancy nutty things in their drinks. If I come in contact with that nonsense, bad things will happen. 
What else... Oh yeah! I've joined my high school's Quiddich team! Yes, quiddich is a real thing in the muggle world. It's like a merge of rugby, handball, and soccer? I haven't gotten to play any yet. But it'll happen, and it'll be pretty neat-o. I'm excited to see where that takes me. It'll be the first sport of any kind that I've joined, and of course the first and only sport I join is Quiddich. Why wouldn't it be. I think I've reached Ultimate Nerd status because of this. 
Around Rosh Hashanah, I had off from school, so Amy & I binged watched almost all of the movies. 
Almost all caught up...
Yesterday, I attended my school's 'Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged]'. It stars three guys, and they cover all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets in about 97 minutes. That performance has seriously changed my life hahahaha. No, but it was hilarious, I was laughing the entire time. There were a lot of innuendos. Only, it wasn't even innuendo, they just came out with it. They had hand puppets do the sex, and one of the guys said they were hung like donkey. Augh, it was so funny though. One of the best parts was when they covered Hamlet. It was the longest one out of all of the others. There was a part where they brought a girl from the audience to be Ophelia, and to help her understand what's going on in her mind, they had the entire audience help. The first four rows (which I was in), had to wave their hands back and forth while saying in a high pitched manner "mayBE! MAYbe not" over and over again. THen they had the back section on the left... do... something, I can't remember. BUT they had the beack right section of the audience yell "CUT THE CRAP, HAMLET, MY BIOLOGICAL CLOCK IS TICKING, AND I WANT BABIES NOW!" So they had all of us do all that at once and it was just a roar of fabulousness. 
When they finished their performance of Hamlet, they were like "Oh hey! We have extra time! Let's do it again! But FASTER!" So they did it again, faster. And when they finished that, they were like, "LET'S DO IT AGAIN. BUT EVEN F A S T E R!!!" So they did that, and it was so great. And when they finished THAT, they were like "Okay, one more time! Except... BACKWARDS." And they did it again, backwards. It was so great, and I loved it. I would love to watch it again. 
I love school plays, man. They're so great. Especially the actors. One of them, Roland I think is his name, he looks like Brad Pitt, and all the girls fangirl over him after his performance in Spamalot, which is funny, because he played Lancelot, who, in the play, turned out to be gay. We all saw him wearing a cod piece. Magic. 

Okay, that's it!
Thanks for reading. 
-Jess