Graduation Approaches!!!

I am graduating from 8th grade in 19 days!!! Hallelujah!!! Two weeks ago, our class went to high school for a day. I'm really looking forward to the Literature class, but DEFINITELY not Algebra 1.
I finally got my dress. :D My mom says I had better wear it for at least the next two years.
We've started working on a choir song for the graduation ceremony thingie. It's called "Always By Our Side" and it's really really really pretty. The lyrics are wonderful too.
But I still have a lot of stuff to do in preparation for graduation. I have to
-Pick out which jacket to wear with my dress. (Brown or pink???)
-Find a necklace to wear. (Which will involve going shopping. Again.)
-Purchase shoes. (I found a pair that might work...I think.)
-Do my graduation board. (Fun fun fun.)
-Take pictures for said board. (Which actually probably will be fun.)
-Decide what else I'm going to display along with my board. (Trophies, medals, ribbons, other random junk that has some obscure meaning to me.)
-Print out and file a bunch of poetry to put on my table thingie. (More revising-bleck.)
-Figure out what on earth to do with my hair. (I only have so many options here, people.)
And last, but not least-
-Pass Algebra 1/2. (I have actually managed to keep my grade in the 90s this year. Yay!!!)
Anyway, if I don't drop dead of exhaustion/embarrassment at my old pictures first, I'll post more later!!!

Libraries Are Wonderful

I love libraries. I try to go to the library at least once a week. My printed list of what I have checked out is nearly as tall as me. I have three piles of library books stacked in my room. Just looking at them makes me happy. I've always loved books, even when I was little. I got my library card when I was about seven or eight. (It disappeared mysteriously and reappeared about 2 years later.)
Here are 7 reasons why I love libraries:
1. They're free!!! (Unless, of course, you forget to return stuff, in which case they can be quite expensive.)
2. If you don't like the book, you don't have to feel bad because you didn't spend any money on it.
3. Librarians. If you can't find something, chances are they can. Although I bet the ones at our library probably think I'm incredibly annoying because I'm always putting stuff on hold and asking to renew stuff and asking if they can give me a list of everything out on my card. But they're always sweet about it.
4. The gigantic beanbag chair by the teen section. It's so comfy, and you can fit like four or five people on it at once.
5. The silence. (Although that is rapidly disappearing.)
6. Where else can you go that has movies, reference books, fiction, and magazines all in the same place??? Not even Barnes&Noble has movies!!!
7. BOOKS!!! BOOKS!!! MORE BOOKS!!! BOOKS AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE!!! BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS!!!
And yes, I am a spaz.
I like to blame it on all the reading.