The World According To Madeleine

Track has been hard. Run a lot, no time to stretch, sore next day, walk like old person, can’t run. It’s fun though. I like running, I like being around my friends.

Eight chickens have died this week, Pollock got out and got them. Trick Chicken and Doris died. My chicken and my other favorite. Very sad, I cried. I don’t know who the other six are. I don’t want to go into the chicken coop to find out.

Sprig break started today. I don’t want it to. All but one of my friends are leaving, or have already left. I want to be at school where I can see everyone. Six hours into spring break and I’m already lonely. I need my friends.

New Modest Mouse cd, it’s a good one. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. I would recommend it, but not for people who don’t want their kids listening to songs with swear words or don’t like or are offended by profanity.

I’ve been riding Alaska more. I still like her, but turns are very hard. I can fully understand what Trevor (owner) meant when he said that Alaska is so big it’s hard to turn. Makes me sad that Guy won’t be at the barn anymore. I’m pretty sure he’s moving to a western barn. I think he has too much potential as a hunter/jumper for him to become a barrel racer. *sigh* I’ll miss him a lot. I don’t even know when he’s leaving.

Thus endeth my short post.

Right now….. it’s eighty degrees out. That does not happen in Michigan. Usually it’s cold and yucky and gray around now. There shouldn’t be flowers, it should be brown, my mom and I shouldn’t be wearing tank-tops and shorts (or capris), but rather jeans and a sweatshirt, I shouldn’t be happy and spring-ey and looking at clouds, I should be sad that it’s gray outside.

I am glad that it’s warm and sunny out, but in Michigan, that usually doesn’t happen. It’s much better weather to excercise in though. Today track started. It was really hard, especially since I already had run a mile in gym (which I also started today). My knees started to hurt really bad during gym. I’m not sure if it was my runner’s knee, the shoes I was wearing, or if it was just running in general. I had a slight limp the rest of the day and walking down stairs was bad. Then at track I ran a half-mile warm-up, then we were all timed at the mile. I got 7:44. I don’t think it was actually a mile. I don’t run miles in 7:44 when I’ve had a stress fracture and my knees hurt. Generally I just don’t run miles in 7:44. In gym I ran (almost) a mile in nine minutes.

Later I’m going to go ride.

I don’t get it. Why is LOST so bad now? Were the writers of the first season fired? hit by cars? brainwashed? LOST has been bad for a while now, but last week’s episode was just horrible. It was pointless, we found almost nothing out, well, except how Jack got his tattoo, that Kate feels guilty and wants to go back for Jack, Alex’s boyfriend what’s-his-face is a sissy, and Bai Ling should never be let to act again, or be seen in public for that matter. I’m pretty sure she’s supposed to be in two more episodes, although I’m not sure whose flashback’s she’s going to be in the next two times, since when I googled it I found out (sorry, I’m not sure where) that last weeks episode was Jack’s last flashback of the season. What she’s going to do in the flashbacks I don’t know either, but last episode she played the part as a skanky tattoo artist-psychic that falls in love with Jack. Two more episodes… that just ticks me off. She can’t act, she can’t dress herself properly. If you need to slouch to keep your dress on, or keep you in your dress, you need to seriously reconsider wearing it. Especially if it’s going to be watched by lots of people who probably don’t want to see that much of Bai Ling. Or anyone. Couldn’t they have hired someone else? Someone who knows better than to dress like Bai Ling? Or why not just have the costume designers design something else? Did they think that having her in the show would boost ratings? I don’t think it helped, I think that if it did anything, it made the ratings drop.

Why do I still watch LOST? Actually, I’m not sure. It pretty much sucks and is getting worse, judging by the last episode. But why can’t I stop watching it? Maybe it’s that I’m afraid they’ll tell us something. Maybe it’s that I want to see how bad the show can get. Maybe I want to see what lame way the writers end it when the show gets get canceled. Maybe I want to see if they get canceled at all. Whatever it is, it’s not that I like it.

Today we had a snow day, which, I kind of didn’t want, because i wanted to see my friends, but it’s really good because we have exams starting tomorrow, so this means we have a shorter week, which means I’ll probably do better on my exams.

It’s Christmas Eve, I’m listening to Christmas music, but, alas, I’m not in the holiday spirit. Sigh. I don’t think I will be if it doesn’t snow. I don’t think it helps that I’m bored either. So far today, I’ve cleaned my room, checked my email, and listened to music. Exiting. I miss my friends so much.

I hope you are feeling joyful and Christmas-y.

Winter break has started, and it makes me sad. I miss my friends already. Sigh… two whole weeks without seeing them everyday. I could keep myself busy skiing, or sledding, but it’s fifty degrees outside, I don’t think that’s going to happen. My Dad had said that we could certainly go skiing, at least a couple times, and all he had to do was put the boat in the water. Ha.