Love Me Sweet

My peanut butter cookies burned yesterday, so my mom helped me bake chocolate chip cookies. They turned out to be a sell-out today at the Interact Bake Sale (which was pretty damn successful--$200 dollars)! Speaking of sweets, I cannot eat another one. I'm pretty sure my pancreas is like the bombed streets of London after World War 2. Except with sugar. I think I might renew my fruit and cracker diet tomorrow.

Today was fairly productive. Helping out with the bake sale for the first and last hours, I spent the four other hours of my day in the library studying for math II and calculus.  I feel more confident in calculus right now, but I'm inclined to go buy the Princeton Review just to reassure myself. Sometimes I wish there weren't as many thoughts in my head, you know? There are so many things to do, but I don't even know where to begin. I look back at the entire year, and I realize that I'm seldom happy. Stress keeps hanging weights on my shoulders, be it school-related or personal.

Happiness, though ephemeral, does come every so often when I'm able to have a real, sincere conversation with someone I care about.

Things are improving. I feel more clearheaded. I'm now able to realize some of my better qualities--tenderness, compassion, and tolerance. I'm growing. Slowly, but it's happening.

Norah Jones (cover): Love Me Tender