MacKenzie Week 7

"I like your sweater."
"Thanks it was my grandfather's. He died and I took it."

KAY Week 6

The severity of falling off a horse depends heavily on what kind of footing you fall on.

Wright Week 7

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you make them feel." -Maya Angelou

Ciara Week 7 2

This morning’s sunrise was a tangerine rose.

Ciara Work 7

I don’t pretend to be the Lorax, but while he has the orange part down, Donald Trump should NOT hold the seat to speak for the trees.

Madison Week 7

I have this habit of being aggressively stressed... this is one of those times

Teddy Week 7

"two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl..."
-Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd

Think about it: We look at fish in a bowl and think how simple a life they have. We laugh because they think their reflection is another fish. What would it be like to live not knowing so much? But then again... don't we?

(Yikes.)

Skotz Week 2

Yesterday my mom called my room a frat house. Im not sure if i should be proud of myself or be reconsidering my life choices

Skotz Week 3

#30 minutes in to playing at Teamworks my friend got my soccer ball stuck in the roof. I gave him a death look to which he responded with "Cash me ousside den!" and ran away.

The ball is rumored to still be there to this day.

Li Week 6

Sometimes when I really think about a word, it starts to sound really foreign to me, like it doesn't even belong in the English language.

Skotz Week 4

I just typed in "Skotz" to title his draft and it corrected it to "Scotts". Apparently my last name comes secondary to a garden fertilizer brand. #seemslegit

Skotz Week 5

Last week I got nutmegged by an 8 year old. Also last week, I finally came to understand why people quit the things they love.

Ciara Week 5

You are the pearl of an eternity's labour.

Skotz Week 6

While three of my friends and I were driving to Teamworks on Friday I quoted Skrillex and screamed "OH MY GOD! CALL 911 NOW!" making my friend Jake, who was driving, to accelerate ten mph in less than a second. Thank god no one was in front of us.

Ciara Week 6

Photography, as life, is the interplay of light and dark; when overexposed, you can't see what's truly dark, and inversely, you must have shadows to get a picture. It's all about finding the balance to take your best shot.

Madison Week 6

"It's a wormmmmmmm." - Lauren mackenzie looking at a stray pencil mark coming out of the apple on my computer

MacKenzie Week 6

I can't keep being your second choice when you're my first.

Schroeder Week 6

A burned skeleton of a strip mall would make a great setting.

Wright Week 6

"If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen." -Emma Watson

Ross Week 6

My dog peed and then my other dog ate the pee snow

Vuilleumier Week 6

Its like patching up a sinking ship with bandages, plugging holes with cotton balls. Only temporary, never totally fixed, and never to the same extent it used to be. Struggling to stay afloat to remain sane- if you can call it that.

Ross Week 5

We are all trying so hard to be rebellious and unique to the point where it is now rebellious and unique to simply follow the rules.

Ross Week 4

"I am the president now" - My friend at 12 am

Teddy Week 6

I ran into my best friends arms without a word and all he said to me was, "I've got you."

Morton 6

Ali's car breaking down was either a sign that we shouldn't have participated in Senior Skip Day, or a an attempt by fate to save us from seeing Beauty and the Beast.

Morton Week 5

Watching the Dancing in the Dark video and wishing I were Courtney Cox. This is an event that happens often.

Wright Week 5

"I'll never understand how time can make a moment feel as close as yesterday and as far as years." -History Is All You Left Me, Adam Silvera

Surampudi Week 5

I once had a dream about swimming inside a volcano. I'd say it was cool, but it really wasn't.

Rottger Week 5

My dad has been bringing home movies he watched when he was younger, and we've been watching them during dinner. Normally I'm not a proponent of eating in front of the TV, but it's become a really special time. It's really sweet to see him get excited when we really like a movie. We started with My Cousin Vinnie and Jordan and I were laughing so hard.
Dad was sitting on the other side of the couch smiling the whole time.

Surampudi Week 4

Sometimes when I'm on YouTube, I'll come across a sad song. While I'm listening to it, I scroll through the comments and I'm surprised to see how many people relate to it. I want to be able to relate to it, too, to see how it feels, but at the same time, I don't.

Schroeder Week 5

Endless tides wear us down.

Li Week 5

My friend takes ceramics and brought some of her pieces home. Her dad took a look and said, "What is that called...art?" It's unclear whether he was being sarcastic or whether he just didn't know the word for "ceramics".

Madison Week 5

But through all of that, even when the Morningstar comes, you  refuse to let go. It may be cracked, but it is not broken. Not yet. Not today. Not ever.

MacKenzie Week 5

Our love is like a chessboard. I move forward, you move backwards. And then suddenly I'm your queen and you're my knight, constantly trying to hunt me down because "you made a wrong move". But you aren't the king I wanted, this is a game I'd rather lose.

Madison Week 4

Watching people do what they love is amazing. Truly, completely, undoubtedly amazing. Especially when it is something that doesn't happen for everyone. You can see it in their face, their body movements, their eyes. It is so painfully obvious when someone is doing something they truly love. It's rewarding. For them and for you. It's nice to know things can work out.

Week 5 Overington

"Why would you call it wood if it wouldn't?

Why would you call it a can if it can't?

Why would you name your son Will if he won’t?"

Kay 5

There's this horse at my barn who is a legit a-hole and everybody hates him because he hates everything and bites everybody and sucks but for some unknown reason I have this deep love for him? Like I care so deeply about this horse even though he bites me on the daily idk

Vuilleumier Week 5

A rap battle but it's between Victorian and Romantic eras poets

Li Week 4

Heard at Chinese school:
 *Teacher complains that kids aren't speaking Chinese in class
Kid: It's weird when you go shopping and your mom talks to you in Chinese. If you talk to her in English, people will think you're cool and American.
Teacher: I don't think you're cool.

Teddy Week 5

"F*** it. We're graduating." -Shakespeare

jk it was me. (; (; (;

Evan Week 4

I like to say that my skin condition looks like dragon scales because it makes me feel better when it starts showing up again.

Rottger Week 4

Yesterday, as we were getting ready for school, Jordan called me Emmeline Harris.
Obviously I took offense, so I called her Emmeline Harris' grandmother.
This devolved into us yelling Anne of Green Gables insults at each other.
J: MORGAN HARRIS
C: PAUL IRVING
J: USELESS MR LYNDE
C: REVEREND ALLEN WITH THE SIDEBURNS
J (running into the kitchen): MOODY SPURGEON
Dad (sitting in the kitchen, talking to Mom): I can't hear anything because someone just yelled moody spurgeon in my ear

Kay 4

My sister has this solar powered wooden toy that she built and it's basically a wheel that slowly brings a marble up to the top, and when it reaches the top it rolls out and down a spiral and back to the bottom. She put it on our dinner table in the sun room, and so every once in awhile, right when I forget that it's there, it clicks forward and I hear the marble roll out. It's startling but makes me weirdly really happy every time.

EDIT RIGHT WHEN I FINISHED WRITING THIS IN MY  JOURNAL THE MARBLE FELL AGAIN

Wright Week 4

The one thing I hate the most about going to the Burlington mall is that the salespeople always calls my mom and I sisters. I personally think we look nothing alike, and it annoys me because every time it happens my mom feels like everyone needs to now and she starts dancing.

Morton Week 4

Let it be on the record that the Lego Batman movie made me cry.

Morton Week 3

Is it a normal thing for (roughly) six year old boys to develop a fascination with the Titanic and her sister ships?

Schroeder Week 4

My cat can fly, like superman.

Vuilleumier Week 4

What makes something socially unacceptable? There are some things considered too rude and offensive to talk about among a sophisticated crowd while others are perfectly acceptable, why is that? Is the emphasis, the thing that makes them wrong or right, behind the thing itself or the implied meaning, or both? What gives them their meaning? And if somethings are considered unacceptable, then why is it that some people may not find them offensive while others do? What would happen if nothing was considered unacceptable or too offensive? What would happen then?

Evan Week 3

I think a lot, but it normally just comes out as random screaming.

Teddy Week 4

Driving to school, I saw two girls standing on opposite sides of the road, standing toward one another. They were waiting for the bus to come. I thought they may have been talking to each other. And I thought: what a funny way to have a conversation! From across the street.

Emma Week 3

Some stranger that you pass on the street may be having the absolute best day they can ever remember having, the absolute worst day they can ever remember having, or the most average day they can ever remember having. Assume they're having the worst day they can ever remember having and try to make it better.

Wright Week 3

"The truth is what I make it. I could set the world on fire and call it rain." -Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

Surampudi Week 3

reverse dementors: instead of sucking out people's souls, they could rejuvenate dying souls

Surampudi Week 2

imagine if there was another universe inhabited solely by characters from films and novels, and they watched movies and read books about us.

Li Week 3

What would the world look like if I was a foot taller or shorter?

MacKenzie Week 3

Dawn and dusk are the very best times of the day. They come right before and after the shadows come out to play, dancing like little puppets strung up by the sun. Yes, they're the best times of day to be awake and alive because you can just exist in solitude while the rest of the world sleeps--alone but not lonely.

Madison Week 3

Flirt with the line, but never cross it.

Vuilleumier Week 3

I have a grocery bag of soda cans next to my desk that I'm too lazy to bring downstairs. It's over flowing and has been sitting there for weeks. Yet I've gone back and fourth between the kitchen and my room 2 times in the past hour for snacks... the bag is still sitting there

Kay Week 3

i was driving on the highway the other night and when i looked back in my rearview, it was pitch black. nothing behind me, no light no cars no nothing it was weird

Kay Week 2

isn't it weird how like everybody likes different kinds of pens but you dont see people hating on you for using ballpoint over gel

Olivia Week 3

An oil spill across my shoulder blades

My stomach is a noose

I'm trying to climb

The rope

Olivia Week 2

You are in my butter crossant

From Starbucks

On a Sunday

At 9am

On the wooden bench

In the park

With the painted piano

In an unfamiliar city

With no destination

But my mouth

Teddy Week 3

In New York I had to keep reminding myself to look up. Not directly up above my head, but UP and OUT.

And for some reason I was vaguely disgusted by the sight of people taking pictures. I do it all the time, but I kept asking why they couldn't just be there.