this is home this is where i go this is my playtime this is the past this is my time
 
09 April 2002

I have a goal in life now: be financially independent. Once I get there, we'll see. What I hate most is getting something with strings attached. My parents will often say, okay, we'll buy you this if you do your SAT II work every day for an hour or so. I want to be able to buy things with money that is mine, completely and wholly mine. I sound like a money grubber, but I'm not going to do anything like marry for money or be majorly stingy. I just want to be independent!

I found a book in my book case that wasn't there before called something like 512 ways to live a happier life and in it are just some silly, some serious suggestions to 'improving' your life. That's why you see what you see on the right hand side. I will do #3! I will! Ah, Amelie, what you inspire...

Hee hee, Mel, Julia, and I are doing Britney Spears as our controversial topic for Reading. It's lookin' interesting!