revive

so i haven't posted since right before i turned eighteen, and i kinda miss this blog. so basically, i'm done with high school, but not technically but actually. i go to school for 11 hours a cycle, and it's been like this for a month. we have four days of school left, but i only go to three of them. i'm graduating soon, and i can't wait to wear my graduation dress! i think i'm more excited for that than for prom.
i'm starting a new photo project, i'll post results.

eighteen

i am eighteen years old in eighteen minutes. i am going to be eighteen years of age. i'm turning eighteen in a matter of minutes.

in a matter of minutes, i can buy a new car. i can serve on jury. all of my driving restrictions are lifted. i can go to jail. i can get married. i can sell property. i can be sued. i can be charged for rape. i can stay out past town curfew.i can buy a lotto ticket. i have to pay taxes on time. i can vote. i can get sued. i'm a legal adult.

holy shit. i'm totally not ready, T-9 minutes.

School of the Art Instutute of Chicago

I'M IN ART SCHOOL! :D
the portfolio day yesterday was so intense, so much different from the other one. this one, the students of the Huntington school of something had all their work set up and the reps came to you, not the other way. it was still a lot of waiting, but it was better than Philadelphia by a long shot. i was judged left and right from the fancy art students who have the money to pay $8k per year to send their kid to this fancy school. i sat in the corner in my ripped jeans and cut shirt with my ipod and phone. whatever, it was a good day.
but so this school, the school of the art institute of chicago, i was standing there with my paperwork waiting for the rep to come back and this asian kid was talking to me. keep in mind, i haven't talked to anyone but reps from 10:30-5ish. he told me that saic is his top school because it's super hard to get into and if you get in, you're super good. and you'll get a better education. and guess what, my portfolio was approved. and so was his. HOLLLAAAAAAAAA

Lesley Ann

my sister, my big sister. seven years apart but only in age. i love you so much! you moved to Florida today and as much as i didn't show it, i'm going to miss you a lot. we fight a LOT like, lol you know how much we fight, but even with all the bad times, we have the good times. we laugh about the dumbest stuff and anything under the sun, including our traditional family dinner conversations. good luck in florida, i love you so much! have fun, get tan, don't cry, and stay in touch. miss you <3

strabismus

for as long as i can remember, i've seen double.
barely seeing one thing of anything ever at any point of the day. doctors look at me, check me out for years. nothing is working out. and on top of that, my eyesight sucks anyways. "she'll never be able to drive" hi, i may be little but i can still see you, understand you, process what you're saying.
then one doctor my mom's talking to finds a prescription for me that doesn't cure the double sight, but it gives me a clear 20-20 vision in both eyes.
that was the first time i saw a doctor cry.
years later i start driving, and the same doctor cries when he finds out i passed my road test, remembering the first day i came into his office. all through this he's saying that my eyes are getting more and more straight, he'll see me in six months. well, before the next appointment i start complaining that i can't see straight. i mean, i've never seen straight but it was so bad that i had to say something.
dr. brian campolattaro, 30 E 40th St, New York, NY. 8 April 2010 we're in his office for literally hours, waiting to see the man with the crazy success stories. it took him ten minutes to win over me and my mom's hearts enough to schedule the third, and hopefully final, surgery.
it's operating day, we're back in the city at the ear and eye clinic on the seventh floor pediatric surgical waiting room. there are four other kids in there, we're all in scrubs waiting for the same man to do the same thing to all of us.
so on the third of june, two-thousand-ten, i think i'm finally strabismus free. for the time at least. eye deviation went from 30 degrees in the right and 23 in the left to less than 1 degree in both eyes. my eyes are swelled, bloody as hell, and straight as a pin.


God's the man, i really can't say it any better than that.

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Luna

date: 20 May 2010 location: SP Preserve, Pt.Wash camera: Nikon d40 18-55mm



congratulations guys, i wish you the best for your futures. love you both so much, welcome to the family, Joan :)

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well blogger, you suck and i hate you. bye.