> My brother is at college now. I miss him. He was honestly my best friend, and we've gotten e-mails from him and stuff, but I still miss him.

I wonder how many people can honestly say that...

> At this time next year, I'll be at college. With any luck, at the same one as my brother, I adore the place. I'm afraid I won't get in though.

You've probably heard this before, but you'll get where you're supposed to get. If it's this one, great!

> When I go, you people are the only ones who will remain constant in my life. Isn't that odd? Everything else will change, and I'll even know my brother in a different context, but you will all be still here on the Rinkworks pages.

"I-I-I-I-I, I will be here..."

> Rinkworks is hard to explain, so I don't. Most of my friends don't know about my addiction here. Isn't that weird? I just never talk about it.

I don't say much about it, either.

> I'm taking Photography. There are some pictures I've wanted to take for 2 years with black and white film, and now i get to. I'm excited.

Cool! I've developed film before. Those chemicals can really get to your fingers, but turning the film in that can-thing might help you "develop" rippling finger muscles. =)

> I should have gotten a purple squishy cow when I was at Williams. It would make life that much better.

There were purple squishy cows there? Did they give grape-flavored milk? =)

> Crying is a healthy thing. You start gulping for air and you look icky, but you feel better afterwards, really. Try it sometime.

So I've heard.

> I'm really quite pretty. It's sort of a random thing to notice, and it's random that I'm only realizing that now, but I am.

I guess that's the way it goes. I've been noticing that for about a year now, but of course, it's many times easier to notice other people's good looks than one's own.

> I can't wait to get my braces off. I've had them for 5 years and i hate them but my teeth are almost straight and I'll get them off in just a couple months. So I'm excited.

Yay!

> There might be something very wrong with me. Every now and then, I get this weird pressure in the right side of my chest and it gets all tingly and sometimes it spreads down my arm and it's really weird. So I finally remembered to tell my parents (because it happened when they were around) and now I'm going to the doctor's on Monday and I'll probably get sent for special tests. It's kinda scary.

I'll pray for you. Definitely. As will my mom. She kinda knows what you're going through, as she's had a whole side go numb. They did a CAT scan, and she tells me that they found nothing. =) They determined that it was just the way she was sitting. Not sure what just your chest and arm going tingly might mean, though...

> I'm in an ultra-spiffy Shakespeare class. It rocks. The second meeting is tomorrow, and I'm sooo psyched.

"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Lynette is the sun." =)

> Guys make no sense. But I've said that before.

People make no sense. I've probably said that before. =)

> uni"most of those were rather serious..."peg

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