Mr. Bean wanted to do my greeting today but it's super scaring me now
Who am I?
Can I condemn this man to slavery
Pretend I do not feel his agony
This innocent who bears my face
Who goes to judgement in my place
Who am I?
Can I conceal myself for evermore?
Pretend I'm not the man I was before?
And must my name until I die
Be no more than an alibi?
Must I lie?
How can I ever face my fellow men?
How can I ever face myself again?
My soul belongs to God, I know
I made that bargain long ago
He gave me hope when hope was gone
He gave me strength to journey on
Who am I? Who am I?
I am Jean Valjean!
I just love that song. Like a whole lot. I randomly got it stuck up in my head as soon as I came and sat down at the computer chair and I had to listen to it on Spotify and then that escalated into putting it in my post. These things do happen.
And now my type is stuck in the middle. So that's just how it's going to go today.
These things do happen.
Laura, you're post was funny and short and had lots of images and GIFs and resembled the rest of our posts and that's what made it so awesome. Not that I have anything against your posts that turn out so much more beautiful than the rest of ours. They shake it up and keep it fresh and inspire us (or me at least) to clean up our writing. not that it actually happens...
Mercy, I love that GIF of the guy eating cotton candy... it didn't work on my phone when I read your post on Tuesday night so I just saw it right now. and it was perfect. UNLIKE THE FREAKY NICHOLAS CAGE PICTURE.
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Rose, I'm really sorry that we made you super sick. I'm not sure how I got away from the disease that everyone in a 10 mile radius of our family seemed to have caught. Life is strange and sickness is strange.
Also, I loved that Twin Forks song <3
and speaking of sickness, can we just not even talk about that movie any more? On Monday I was having total crazy emotions and I think it had to do with the movie. Every time someone said 'okay' my heart broke into a thousand little splinters and then I read TSWGO and Esther died even though I specifically told her not to. And then I went to a friends house to babysit because their mom has cancer... and I think all of that was overwhelming (plus Rose wasn't there anymore) and I couldn't handle it. And it was horrible and I hate that movie but I utterly love it and want to watch it a million more times because it was so perfectly, horribly, wonderfully, John Greenish.
if you know what I mean.
but on a lighter note. we are officially-not officially done with school for the summer.
what I mean by this is that we are done with school except Mercy and I will be doing school over the summer. All of those subjects that we never got to during the long hard months of winter *cough* history *cough*. Also math because Mercy is a procrastinator and because even though I have only 44 lessons left and my mom said I could be done, I haven't done anything hard yet and nothing that will be present on the SAT which I will be taking in October. Basically I could have done about half of the beginning of the book and should have focused on the end. But no, I dutifully did the book in the setup and order that it is written and now I'm stuck doing it over the summer so that I can be prepared for the stupid standardized test. The joys of being a highschooler.
But since I'm "done" with school, I have no qualms about blogging during my usual math time. I don't feel guilty that I spend most of my afternoon cleaning my room, tumbling, baking, walking the dog, or sucking books into the depths of my mind. something I've actually become very good at lately.
Crime and Punishment is coming along page by slow, but fascinating, page. Much Ado About Nothing was rescued from the depths of Lydia's dresser where it's been lost for a while, and Sherlock Holmes has been given a space on my shelf so that I can have something to ponder over before I go to bed each night.
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| these are called the 'hipster summer gifs' |
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| this is what I think I look like at the beach |
look its us! Two brunettes and two blondes :)
So yes, summer is here even though the week has been gross and cold and not summery at all, at least I have the long awaited freedom which comes with the end of the school season. I'm filled with hopes, and joys, and new prospects, and sunshine and I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about because I'm sure that you're filled with the same feelings. But this summer we should try and have many phone calls and have a list of things we want to do which we can do separately but take photo evidence and send it to each other because I'm not sure how much time we'll actually be able to spend with each other.
So I'll just say that I dare you Backus girls, to do something funky with your hair this summer. Mercy and I plan to dye ours while our mother is in Paris and so maybe do that (though I know dying brown hair is nearly impossibly) or try bleaching it or do something less time consuming and with less commitment. Like getting a feather extension or just trying out a new hairstyle for a bit of time. Just take some pictures and let us know when it happens.
I do have to get my math done at some point, so I guess I'll say farewell and I can't wait to read Laura's post on Monday. I hope you all have a fantastical weekend and we should try and fit in a Facetime or a phone call at some point <3 Grace
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