a happy ending for all
2001-12-27 @ 10:37 p.m.
I am pretty upset with my dad. He's being such a bum. I have to fill out this paper for financial aid for Colombia, and he's not letting me fill it out. He doesn't want me to fill out anything because he feels that it's none of my business. At this point in my life, I could not care less about our assets and how much he makes in a year. I just wanted to write out the form myself so that it would be done neatly. He insits that his handwriting is neat enough and that no one needs to know "his business", but I think he's just being a jerk. His handwriting sucks, and all I want to do is write the numbers in so that they're legible. Now he's mad at me because I asked to do the writing myself. I didn't know he would be so damn sensitive about being told that his handwriting is ugly. I don't care though. If I don't get any financial aid because the form is filled out correctly, or because they can't read the form at all, then it's not my problem. He can pay the full tuition and board if that's the case. I can hear him arguing with my mother right now as to filling out the form. He'll most likely mess it up and do something stupid. I want to get into Colombia so bad, but I have this really bad feeling that I'm not going to. I mean, I want to go into journalism, and I'm told that if you're going to go for journalism, that's one of the best places to be. If I can get in there, then I'm made. Just the name along will be enough to help me out. I know I can do well at a school such as that, but I just need to show that I'm better than the other five million kazillion students who've also applied. I'm going to New York City at the end of January, so hopefully I'll get a chance to check out the school then and decide if that's where I want to spend the next four years of my life.
Speaking of going to New York City, I hope this will be fun. I know my dad wants to get away for a vacation, and so do I. I think that we're going the week after mid-terms. He wants to go see the musical 'Contact', but I want to see 'Saturday Night Fever'. We'll see who wins in the end. I also want to go to Chinatown and get some cds. And I also want to visit New York University and Colombia. No matter what we do there, it will be nice just to get away from school and hellish awfulness, and any other craptacular things that will be coming my way. Sometimes it doesn't matter where you go to vacation, as long as you can escape reality and the surroundings that find a way to strangle you at times.
Today I went to the movies again to see 'Amélie'. It's a French film, and it was really cute. The story is about this girl who works in a café in Paris called Les Deux Molines and one day she finds a box of childhood treasures hidden in the wall of her house left there from a person who once inhabited her flat. She secretly returns them, and then decides to do nice things for other people in secret. She fixes up lives for others but then is unable to fix her own life until she gets a little help from those around her. It's a really good film, although a tad bit strange at times. There were a few sexual scenes that I would have just laughed at if my little sister were not there. I didn't want her to feel uncomfortable. It's sort of like they made a bit of a joke about them, but in a sort of gross way. I would reccomend the movie, though. It's really a nice story, and it has a happy ending. I'm a sucker for those happy endings.
Ciao.
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