I am really feeling this Monday. My head feels like a ton of bricks paired with a pressure headache. Sinuses? Maybe. I am also in a "Monday"-like mood. Thankfully, it is almost over. To pass the time luckily there was an abundance of good movies on today. Some of them being Kiss Me Kate, Rebel Without a Cause, and Dead Poet's Society. All very good for an icy-weather-stay-in-headache-Monday day like today.

My mom is sitting on the couch learning Italian on a cd for our fast-approaching trip this summer. I am getting pretty excited! We're visiting Rome, Caprice, Florence, and the Greek islands. I'm especially jazzed about the Greek islands! I cannot wait to explore and live a few days like the people there do. Sure, going to see the big attractions and landmarks will be great, but I love finding things on my own, watching people, and whatnot. Watching people... hm makes me sound like a creeper.

Within the next month I will be deciding which college I'll be attending. The colleges in debate are Northwestern State University, LSU, and Ole Miss. Waiting on letters from LSU and Ole Miss, but they should be arriving in the next few weeks. I am so ready to leave this town. I think I'll miss maybe 5% of the people around here. As for the rest, I doubt you will miss me either :)

It's funny to watch the people of Northeast Louisiana stocking up like the apocolypse is coming when it's just a little ice and sleet. I'm not complaining though, got me out of school on a Monday.

New playlist includes: Band of Horses, The Shins, Belle and Sebastian, Coconut Records, Coldplay, etc. "Whip My Hair" may or may not be on there.... guilty pleasures.

Enjoy a few of my current favorites:


Window Blues by Band of Horses

Down by the Water by the Drums

Whip My Hair by Willow Smith

So long for now!

Ahh, here I find myself relaxing on a lovely Friday afternoon. I feel like I should be outside frolicking, but what fun is frolicking if you don't have anyone to frolick with? I wonder how many times I can use the world frolick before it gets annoying... probably filled my quota by now.

We are studying the Elizabethan Period in English right now, and well I say "studying"... but it's more like skimming. I'm being a snob because I'm a nerd about the English Courts, King Henry the VIII yada yada. We never go much in depth in this English class. I can't say I enjoy much about it. Anyway,  because Shakespeare is very much apart of the Elizabethan Period we had to write sonnets for a grade. I dreaded this right from the start because I've never been much of a poet. Neither is anyone else in class, but I usually find it difficult to write without sounding too cliche. Much to my horror, she gave us the option of reading them aloud for bonus. I try not to ever pass up a bonus opportunity, but I really didn't want to read something I had written aloud. Most people wrote humorous sonnets, but I wrote a... "serious" one. I think when it comes to writing, most teenagers just write something humorous to avoid being picked apart. I considered doing that, but I thought, "Hey, why not? I'll try." So I tried, and surprisingly, I was pretty proud of my work. I was even more proud of reading it aloud, which I really didn't want to do. Since then I wrote another sonnet with ease. Hm, maybe I am a poet and didn't know it. Now if only I could write papers like that...

Yesterday I watched the movie "Music From Another Room" from 1998 with Jude Law. I really enjoyed it! For all of you romantics out there, you might want to check it out. It was humorous, maybe even a little cheesey, but I really liked it. But then again, is there a movie with Jude Law we don't like, ladies of the world? I didn't think so.

Posted below is yesterday's broadcast from West Monroe. "World News with Lucas and Taylor" is featured. If you don't want to watch all of our suuuuper interesting announcements, just skip to about 1:40 on the video. Enjoy, and we'll be back next week with another segment.

All you folks out there have a lovely, sunny weekend!

To kill time before my (possible) zoo adventure with Lucas Roberts, I'm posting. "Why the zoo?" you may ask. Oh, just procrastinating till the last second on my community service for National Honor Society and Student Council. Yippee. This should be interesting...

For all you West Monroe students, Lucas and I will be premiering a new "World News" segment in broadcasting tomorrow, so stay tuned! Hopefully I can load some of our segments on here. We'll see :)

For those who don't know, Snow White will be opening the last weekend of this month Friday-Sunday! Showtimes are at 7 pm Friday and Saturday and a Sunday matinee at 2 pm. Be forewarned that this is not the Disney version of Snow White. In fact, there are no dwarves at all! A little background of the story:
Snow is forced to run away from her kingdom after her mother (the evil Queen) turns on her. She is found by 7 thieves who take her in and care for her as their own. I would tell more, but I don't want to spoil the story because it's a good one! The script was written by Amy Medlin who is also directing it. Here's an interesting twist, there are some classic rock songs thrown into the show making for a little excitement. Heae famous songs such as "Landslide", "Dream On", "Poison", "Burnin' for You", along with many others! Live music will be played by Shepherd's Pie! Come out and see a great show... and maybe even see me fighting with a sword (which I'm sure will be rather humorous)!

I just got an update from Lucas that our zoo adventure is a go, so I'll be off now! Au Revoir!

Blogging! This should be fun! Reminds me of the days when we all had Xanga pages in middle school. Giggles. 

I guess I'll ramble on this thing, maybe post a few videos, and just keep everyone up to date (for those that care). 
Enjoy!