So. Went out today. There are some weekends when I don't leave the house at all, so this is a thing worth mentioning. My mom made waffles this morning, yum. After hurrying to get ready (it takes me about three times as long as it does her), we went to the library. I should have asked to drive. I am horribly out of practice. And I can't park. Now that the spring weather is here, hopefully to stay, I should get more opportunities. Daylight savings time is not always a bad thing. Anyway, I finished my last book in the car, and I knew what I wanted when I went in the library, so that didn't take long at all. (Hey. Stop calling me a nerd. Only I get to do that. And in my case, it's more "I can't find this book at Borders" or "I don't know if I want to read it enough to buy it" than "Hey, let's go hang out at the library!" K?)
The book, by the way, was
Janine and Alex, Alex and Janine, by Michael Levin. I've wanted to read it since I saw the Disney Channel movie adaptation,
Model Behavior. As with most book-to-movie deals, the book was different from and better than the movie. There were some great passages that I wanted to excerpt here, but you can
hit up Amazon or
the library if you're interested. When I read books, I hear the words in my head, so it's sort of like a movie already. Except that they're usually bodiless voices. Since I've seen the movie twice, though, I kept seeing the actress that plays Alex/Janine and Justin Timberlake. (Mmm. Not Lance, but still rather yummy.) It's about an "oh-so-normal" seventeen-year-old girl, Alex, who worships teen supermodel Janine Adams. Janine contacts Alex one day, and they meet. Everntually, they decide to temporarily switch places. Janine gets to experience high school, and Alex gets to be a top model and win the heart of the gorgeous actor Jason Sharp (Justin). The trouble is, what if someone finds out? And what happens when you get swept up in a fantasy? The book was written directly from Alex's POV. (Shoot, I may have to buy it just for the beautiful use of single-character POV...) The voice was perfect, as displayed in sentences such as "I'm like, No way is this happening to me," and "Oh pause migod." Some people would call it clichéd. I am into the whole "young adult fiction" thing, however, so :P. I liked it. I got another one like it at the library today.
After the library, we went out to Michael's so I could get some foam core board for my model house in Lifsey's class. Shouldn't be too hard to make. Lots of marking and cutting, then gluing. I don't know if we're using regular or hot glue, though. I hate hot glue. I tend to (a) burn my fingers, (b) mis-glue something and have to wait for it to cool so I can pull it apart, (c) accidentally drag a long string of glue into the air and walk through it, so I freak out, thinking "spiderweb!", or (d) do some combination of those. He said we'd be working on it in class, but where am I supposed to put my boards until fifth period? Not gonna fit in my locker. And does he have knife-things for us to cut the foam with? I have one from my science fair windmill (which, btw, earned me an honorable mention. pretty spiffy for a 30-project category), but there's probably something wrong with bringing any sort of knife to school...
Popped into Modell's to get some baseball pants for Ryan. Didn't actually buy them, yet still spent about twenty minutes wandering around. I just followed my mom. Sporting goods are
not my thing. Then lunch at the mall. Had a Sprite. My mom's right, food really does taste better when you've been deprived of it. Got some new jeans at Old Navy: boot-cut, long, dark-washed, fit just the way I like them, and on sale. Yay. Wandered through Kohl's, realized that swimsuit season is coming, was depressed. Went to Wal-Mart, got cute visor, got over swimsuit depression. Came home, folded very wrinkly laundry, watched tv even though had other things to do, ate dinner, got online. This concludes the latest installment of What Lindsay Did Today. You can wake up now.
I joined several more fanlistings. Still have many musical artist, movie, tv, book, and misc. fanlistings to seek out, though. I am officially addicted to fanlistings, with no intention to stop. So much so, that when I couldn't find one I was looking for, I considered starting it. No time, though. I've been looking around for ideas for a new blog/site layout, but that will take
mucho time that I don't have. Must study for SAT, AP English exam, various school stuff, and research colleges 'cause I'm tired of people asking where I want to go. I'm
looking, okay? Also, work toward license, finish reading-in-progress fanfics, and probably do some other stuff I can't even remember right now. Yipee. Off to accomplish something before bed. Ciao.
