The end of May means a lot of things — finals, graduation, summer, three months of freedom, and, most importantly, the end of the current television season.

Most specifically, this Wednesday will mark the close of the seventh season of “American Idol.”

I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a runner.

Unless I am playing some intense Ultimate Frisbee or am trying to get somewhere really awesome in a short amount of time, I absolutely positively despise running. It makes every fiber of my being scream in pain just thinking about it. It makes me want to curl up into a ball and cry.

Recently, I have gone on a total reading spree. Every free moment I've had in the past week (when I wasn't catching up on a little bit of extremely important television) I have spent reading.

With the summer and its ample reading time coming up, I thought I would take a moment to recommend some of my favorite books/series to you.

Last night, I logged onto Mugglenet, a Web site which I rather embarrassingly frequent. It features all things Harry Potter, from book mistakes to character name origins to a spell encyclopedia to the most recent Potter-related news.

It seems like everybody and their mother are going to or holding parties on the weekends. Not pool parties, or backyard barbecues, or pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey parties. These are
let’s-be-rebellious-and-get-really-drunk-and-high-because-our-lives-suck-so-much parties.

And I have a question.

Why the heck would anyone think that sounds like fun?

“American Idol” is back!

Usually, I find Spirit Week really irritating.

The weeks move so slowly after winter break that I'm usually not in such a good mood. I'm tired of waking up early, coming to school, doing homework, and sitting in classes full of teachers and students who are in just as lovely a mood as I am.

A year or two ago, I sat down and turned on the TV just in time to discover that "The Terminator" was playing on TV. I had never seen this famous movie starring the governor of California, so I decided to watch it.

Recently, I've been hearing a lot about the future. Whether it be the future of my education and career, or the future of the planet that we're slowly destroying, ideas about it are everywhere.

I love Christmas music.

Being almost anti-religious, Christmas isn't one of my favorite holidays, what with the weather, the stress of buying presents, and the always looming temptation of eating WAY too much. But the music, I love.

Ever since I can remember, accusatory sentences uttered in colloquial situations have always been followed with a defiant "Your mom ate your tater tots!" or "Your mom's face is ugly!"

So I have been on theatre (yes, it is spelled that way!) overdrive for the past 3 months.

Now don't get me wrong, I love theatre. Directing my own play has been especially amazing. But being in plays really forces you to spend a lot of time with the same people, and you end up learning a lot of things. I decided to spend this blog entry imparting some theatre wisdom on all of you.

I just went to the first basketball game of the season. Uni High girls against Atwood-Hammond. I gotta say … it was intense!

We at Uni have a lot of advantages over other schools. We get regular exercise in an excellent PE program. We don't have nasty cafeteria food. We have amazing teachers and quality classes that actually might prepare us for college.