Last night was one of the coolest nights of my life. My friend Kate and i wound up pressed against the stage that Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley and Jimmy Wayne stood on!

Rewind.

We'd bought tickets through Brad Paisley's fan club and supposedly we wound up within the first twenty rows on the floor. But they didn't give us seat numbers when we bought them; all they said was to pick them up at will call the day of the show. This made me nervous. I was afraid something had gone wrong in my order. So i stressed for about a month.

The moment of truth came yesterday. We went to the will call place around six pm, and the woman handed us an envelope of tickets. i was putting my ID back in my wallet, and i asked Kate where our seats were. When she said we had fourth row, i flipped out. Then i had to check and make sure it was right. It was. From this point on, we basically screamed every time we looked at each other.

Once we got inside, we bought some merchandise (aka. a reeeeally goregous Dierks Bentley shirt) and then went to find our seats. When the usher led us to the sets of chairs right next to the catwalk, we FREAKED. i was on the end, and i could touch the catwalk! Then we proceeded to call/text everyone we could think of to tell them where we were.

At 7:30, a woman from the local radio station introduced Jimmy Wayne. It turned out it was his birthday! He came out, and he had SO MUCH energy. He was jumping around and running all over the stage! Not many people were standing except me and Kate, so we walked over to the catwalk, and after a minute, Jimmy came over and TOUCHED OUR HANDS and SANG TO US. yeah, it's true. It was cute, during a long intro to one of his songs, he had a bunch of signs that he held up to the camera. the first one said "Scream if" and the rest said things like "If you love country music" "if you love beer" "if you love Dierks Bentley" "if you love Brad Paisley" and the last one said "It's my birthday, spank me!" LOLLLLLL. Then this lady who sat in front of us must have gotten a kick out of our screaming, and she took a picture of us by the catwalk and she got Jimmy in the background!

Since it was Jimmy's birthday, everyone sang Happy Birthday, and they brought this huge box out on stage and some guy (one of Jimmy's friends, i think) burst out of it in a dress and a pink feather boa. Which was interesting :]

Then they started setting up for Dierks Bentley's set. During this time, Kate and i began making friends with the camera guy. I noticed he was looking at is, so we waved and he waved back. This is important for later ;]

then it was time for Dierks! He came out singing Sideways, and Kate and i bolted to our spot by the catwalk. Dierks had some screens on his stage, which looked really cool. He sang Every Mile A Memory (one of my favorites), and then How Am I Doing? which he prefaced by thanking the girls in his past for making good song subjects. While he was center stage, he LOOKED AT and POINTED AT me and Kate and SMILED. Because we were some of the only people standing in the front so we were easy to see!!! And when he walked by us on the catwalk, HE TOUCHED MY HAND! my left one (jimmy touched my right; i kept track because i'm a loser like that. I almost passed out. DIERKS BENTLEY. TOUCHED MY HAND. Dream come true. He sang Lot of Leaving Left To Do, and Come a Little Closer (he introduced it by saying "If you want to ask her to dance...this'd be the song to do it." ;] it was cute. Then he sang Settle For A Slowdown, which is my FAVORITE song of his. He sat on a stool and played such a sweet song called My Last Name. A lot of people were still standing, and he was like, "You can sit down; get your use out of those seats. I'll get you back up!" but Kate and I stayed by the catwalk anyway.

Then he sang Feel That Fire, after which he flopped down at the end of one of the other catwalks and informed us: "I'm tired, can we put on a movie? You guys like Will Ferrell? or The Hangover? Sounds good!" And they played the beginning of his video for What Was I Thinking? with him and the girl sitting in the truck. Dierks goes, "I don't recognize that guy...but that girl looks familiar. Oh, yeah, her name's Becky. She's from south Alabama...WAIT, THIS IS A HORROR MOVIE!" then he gets up and charges back up the catwalk and sings What Was I Thinking, which is my other favorite Dierks song (i want it as my ringtone). Then we all thought he was done, but he put on a baseball cap and sang Free and Easy as his encore. He did practically a mini-concert, it was at least forty five minutes long.

While we were waiting for Brad, a security guy came up to us and asked if we'd like to help him fill up the stage area. We were like, um SURE. and we followed him RIGHT UP TO THE FRONT OF THE STAGE...IN FRONT OF THE FIRST ROW. We were TOUCHING THE STAGE. And that's when we made friends. Kate made friends with a guy putting duct tape on the stage and he gave her a guitar pick. And the camera guy said to us, "I'm going to be doing crowd shots; do you think you can give me energy?" and we were like "I think we can work something out!" and he joked and said "People tell me that a lot..." "No, i think we've got it covered!" so that was cool.

Then the lights went out, and Brad just WALKS OUT to the edge of the catwalk and sings Start a Band acoustic alone. Then the curtain covering the stage drops, and we see his HUGE SET with tons of screens, and he sings American Saturday Night. When he walked by us, he TOUCHED OUR HANDS TOO (my right, like Jimmy) and said, "Hey guys!" OMGGGGG. Brad Paisley SPOKE TO US. He also informed us that we had to beat Michigan (our football team was playing them the day after) for him. :] He sang a TON of his songs, like Mud on the Tires, Water, Waiting on a Woman, She's Everything. Then he sang I'm Still A Guy, and he introduced the bridge ("These days there's dudes getting facials..." part) by saying, "There are no sissies in State College!" While he sang Celebrity, he had a Guitar Hero style screen, and Taylor Swift was on it, playing the guitar. We were all like OMG TAYLOR!!!!!! he sang I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishing Song), which is always hilarious. He sang Letter to Me, during which he showed his senior pictures. it was so funny, he was like "Let's review: 15 hay bails, two bolo ties...luckily you can't see the parachute pants cut off at the botton of the picture!" It was so cute, he was like "I was 17, never been kissed, scared out of my mind. People would tell me, 'Son, these are the best years of your life,' and i thought, 'Just shoot me now.' I am living proof high school is not necessarily the best years of your life. College, on the ohter hand..." Then he did an acoustic version of When I Get Where I'm Going, and on the screen showed pictures of people who've died (Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Steve Irwin, Patrick Swayze) and it was so sad. but touching.

He sang Then and The World (on the screen, they showed a Brad Paisley bobblehead in front of famous monuments around the world, including the PSU Nittany Lion!!!!) He played Catch All the Fish, and after that, he did an instrumental portion, during which he played this animation that he'd made himself. It had him as a superhero saving all these other coutry stars. Carrie Underwood was tied to the railroad tracks, Kenny was in danger, monsters were chasing Reba, Sugarland was stuck in a room with a bomb...HILARIOUS. Then he sang Online, then did his encore of Welcome to the Future. THEN he started singing Alcohol, and DIERKS AND JIMMY CAME BACK OUT! The encore was nuts; the guys were running all over the stage, touching people's hands (DIERKS TOUCHED ME AGAIN!!!!!!!!) and Jimmy tried to crowd surf. No joke. He motioned for all of us in the front to come over to one area, and he was like "You've gotta hold me up!" and then he fell back onto a bunch of people. There wasn't really anywhere for him to go, though, so they pushed him back onto the stage. He's crazy haha! Brad's guitarist was standing above us, and he asked if we were having fun. We were like, "YES! THIS IS SO COOL!" and he's like, "I know, me too!" Then at the end of the song, they all disappeared backstage, and the ligts came back on...and the magic was over. BUT then one of the tech guys came out with a bunch of guitar picks for me and Kate, and kate gave a bunch to other people too!

They started taking down the stage right away, and that's when Kate and i realized that we couldn't hear, speak or walk. Considering we'd been jumping up and down, screaming right next to a speaker that was booming music so loud, you could feel the vibrations on your legs even when you were six inches away. So we walked up the steps and wanted to find something to drink. and we knew Jimmy said something about signing autographs later, but we weren't sure if we'd missed him or not.

We didn't miss him.

We found the line and got in it, chatting with the people in front of us and behind us. The woman in front of us informed us that she was leaving her husband for Jimmy :] I wanted to buy a picture but was three dollars short. So Kate gave me two dollars and attemped to make another dollar out of change. The lady who's leaving her husband for Jimmy saw us and said, "Here, just give me the change, and i'll give you a dollar. Because no one should be denied Jimmy Wayne!!!!!" So I bought the picture after about ten minutes of trying to get the picture/cd seller's attention, and the line moved slow-ish, and we weren't sure why. Until we got up close and realized Jimmy was chatting with everyone while he signed their stuff. Because he's just awesome and incredible!

So when it was my turn, i handed the camera to the guy taking pictures (which was so nice of him to take pics of everyone), and i literally RAN up to Jimmy and squealed (because i squeal when i get excited) "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" and like i put out my arms and gave him this big hug, informing him "I'm SUCH a hugger!" I heard Kate behind me going "Awwwhhh Kaitlin!!!" And then...he LIFTED ME OFF MY FEET and gave me the biggest squeeze ever!!!! i almost DIED! He is, i believe, the BEST hugger i have ever come into contact with. then we started talking about hugging (because who doesn't love talking about hugs?) while he was signing my picture, and I was like, "People don't hug here...i don't know, maybe i'm just not good enough friends with them to hug them." And he was like "Well, i think you should just start hugging people...i mean, you're beautiful; i don't know why anyone wouldn't want to hug you!"

OH.
MY.
GOD.

JIMMY WAYNE CALLED ME BEAUTIFUL AND GAVE ME THE BEST HUG EVER.
My life is perfect.
So...yeah...that was my night. :] <3
Thank you to Brad, Dierks, and the amazing Jimmy for an amazing night!!!!!!!


Jimmy Wayne about to touch us!


Dierks Bentley aka GOD.


Brad Paisley. RIGHT ABOVE US.


Me and Jimmy after our epic hug!!!

Well, do you? Know what really stinks, i mean. I guess there are a lot of things that really stink. Old gym sneakers, having to walk to class in the snow in October (on my top ten list of things i don't like to do) and eating vegetables all stink. But i believe i have found the number one thing that really stinks. It stinks when your computer gets a virus on it, the Penn State computer police shut off your internet access and insist you hand over your computer so they can erase everything on it.

That stinks.

Of course, i'm blatantly refusing to let them anywhere near my computer. I already virus-checked it, and i'm pretty sure i got the virus off. But i'm still going to take out my harddrive, connect it to my Bentley computer and virus check it again. Meanwhile, i convinced ResCom (our computer Nazis whose help desk is NEVER open) to turn my internet back on so i could use my Bentley computer. Which they are in the process of doing now. Only they're closed today. And i'm developing a burning dislike for them and their stupidity. Example A: it took them five minutes to figure out how to change my password, even though i was right there telling them how to do it. They just kept saying, "No, that's not going to work." And i repeated my directions a few minutes later. "No, i don't think it works like that." Finally, they listened to me and it worked. "Oh, you were right, sorry."

I want to take their jobs. They don't deserve to work on other people's computers; they're too dumb. It makes me mad, because i know i can fix my computer myself, but i HAVE to go through them to get my internet turned back on.

So that's my number one frustration right now. I'm in a computer lab typing this after walking through the SNOW THAT'S ON THE GROUND to get here. That's right, it's october, and we have snow. It's just not right.

I guess i'm just chilling out for the rest of the day. Not much to do. I made it into the group that gives campus tours, and our first orientation meeting is tomorrow. Just found out it got moved inside because of the snow, thank GOODNESS. I might just go back to my room and read a book or something; i'm mentally exhausted from dealing with ResCom. And i'm still not done with them!

-kaitlin

I think my dorm hates tall people. Not the people in my dorm, but the building itself. The bathroom stalls come up to about my chin, so i can completely see over the top of the door. The shower heads are so low that i can barely wash the top of my head. And i barely fit into my bed without curling my toes over the edge. But that always happens when i'm in a twin bed.

But this is clearly ridiculous. Tall people must UNITE and protest this injustice. We have rights, too! Just because we block your view at concerts does not mean we don't deserve equal treatment.

Speaking of tall people and concerts, Taylor Swift is my twin. Seriously. I went to her show at the Bryce Jordan center last Saturday, and it was NUTS. After she sang Tim McGraw and went through the audience hugging people, the crowd screamed for FIVE MINUTES. No joke. We made her cry. Happy cry, of course. It was amazing.

College is college. Lots of work, bizarre weather (it's FREEZING here), and football starts this weekend! So excited, we're all dressing up! I adore my theatre class; my prof is awesome. He says things like, "If you need to barf...you have a backpack" and "I used to work at a gas station...no one wore sequins to work" (in reference to the bizarre world of musicals). He's amaizng. Love it.

I can't think of anything interesting to say, so i think i'm going to go play my guitar.
love you!
kaitlin <3

Well, it's been a looong time since i posted last. I finished my first semester at Penn State (As in both classes, which i was reeeally proud of) and have been home for the past week, spending time with the family. Tomorrow i head back to school, where i'll attempt to take six classes at once (one of which is an online course) without killing myself or going insane. The professors are beginning to put up their syllabus info online, and i've been checking them out, and they're making me a little nervous. I wound up dropping my Lit class today because of the amount of reading and group work that i didn't want to put up with. I exchanged it for a trig class, which i'm happy about because i like math. The only downside is that now i have four classes monday, wednesday and friday, and the last one ends at 2:15, whereas my old schedule ended at noon. it'll make it a little harder when i want to go home for a weekend, but we dealt w/it over the summer, so it should be okay. I'd rather have a less desirable schedule arrangement than be taking a class i hate.

This week has been so fun! Hung out with Kristen and Michelle, went to New Jersey for baby Nora's first birthday party, ate a TON at Shady Maple, multiple shopping trips, saw Post-Grad (ALEXIS!), got my hair trimmed and went into work for the day. OH and mommy and i watched an old Garth Brooks concert from 1997 and i spent the entire time whining about how badly i want him to come out of retirement so that i can be his opening act/merchandise seller/guitar tech/coffe and donut fetcher. That man is a music GOD. i swear.

Well, i have to wake up at six tomorrow morning to leave for school, so i should keep this short. Here's my new address; send me letters/postcards/massive amounts of cash.

Kaitlin Bartlett
508 Porter Hall
University Park, PA 16802

Love you!
Kaitlin xo

Wow, it's been so long since i've updated, but it's been CRAZY! First of all, two weeks after graduating high school, i'm officially a college student! it's nuts, but i feel like i've been here a year and not a week! Like i feel like i'll be a sophomore in the fall!

So i moved in last Sunday (June 28th) and it went really well. I love my dorm (i'm in the Honors College building; that's where they stuck everyone doing the LEAP program i'm doing this summer); it's really big (for a college dorm), the bathrooms are decent (again, for college dorms), and my roommate is so sweet and low-maintenance. I've met a bunch of people, one girl i've started going to the gym with, others i met during a community service project i did (working outside at a recycling yard...in the rain...in shorts...and flip flops. But the other girls i hung out with were wearing shorts, too, so we bonded). I've started chatting with some of the people from my classes about the homework and stuff, and i'm getting to learn all their names, too. A big group of girls from my building went to see the 4th of July fireworks, and then last night we went to the basement lounge and had a movie night! We watched Mamma Mia and ate pizza! So fun, i think we're going to make it a regular thing!

As far as classes go, i'm on day 3. They're good, a little intimidating (each class comes with a syllabus to tell us what we're doing this semester, and my speech one is pretty detailed, which i sort of like, so i can work ahead if i want to). For my speech class, we're going to have to do six speeches, three are big ones and they're linked together (1: present a social problem, 2: make a policy to change it, 3: motivate others to help change it). The others are small (your biggest pet peeve, one relating a youtube video to the course). And there's an impromptu one (the only thing about this course that's freaking me out) where the instructor will randomly pick a few people a day to do a spontaneous speech about a topic she picks. And since i'm not great speaking without prep, it's making me nervous. I did my first speech on my pet peeve (when my books are loaned out and returned to me in worse condition...yeah i'm bizarre like that). Otherwise, that class is fine.
English is pretty cool; i love writing, and we're doing 5-6 papers. I'm so glad i took AP English this past year; i feel so prepared for these essays, thanks to Mr. Wall! Both my instructors are really young (early twenties, grad students maybe?) so that's less intimidating. I answer lots of questions in class, because i'm sick of just sitting around being shy. No one from college knows how i acted in high school, which i think is sort of awesome! Anyway, i'm really chatty in English, and it makes it so much more fun!

As far as other stuff i've done, the night i got here, there was a big social (complete with Creamery ice cream, which apparently can't be sold anywhere off campus because the fat content doesn't pass inspection...limiting myself on ice cream now) in the Hub (the center for non-alcoholic nightlife at PSU). They had a guy making INSANE balloon animals (he made me Elmo!), a comedian who specialized in college campus performances (and was HILARIOUS; we sat in the front row and he picked on my Elmo), circus performers who juggled all sorts of things, and an ice cream social. Graham Spanier, the president of PSU, came for a while and scooped ice cream! He's so cool! Apparently if you write him an email, he'll respond within three days. I'll have to try that. Then last monday evening, i went to a movie with Bridget, my amazing RA, and some of the other RAs. It was really cool, and Bridget told me about what it takes to be an RA, so that's something to consider for next year. Guarenteed housing! :)

As for today, i have my English class at 12:45. I think i'll just eat some snacks here instead of going to lunch (since i ate at 9 and it's only 11:30 now); i don't go to lunch too often. After class i'll probably hit the gym for about 45 minutes, then do some homework and go to dinner. At 8:30, Bridget's holding a cookie baking party in the kitchenette on our floor, so that'll be fun.

Guess that's all my news. Arts Fest is coming this week, which is apparently a big deal. No one seems to know exactly what goes on, except there's a TON of people. So it should be interesting. My mommy's coming up on Satuday for her birthday, so i'm staying in the hotel with her and we're going to Johnny Depp's new movie! YAY!!!

If anyone wants to send me letters or anything, here's my new address. i love getting mail!!
Kaitlin Bartlett
116 Atherton Hall
University Park, PA 16802

Love you guys!
-Kaitlin

I graduated tonight. And now i can't sleep.

Honestly, liquid adreneline must be coursing through my veins, because my brain is on fire. It's 12:11, and i'm uploading my graduation pictures to facebook and tweeting about the evening. Oh, and i'm watching Whale Wars, because there's nothing else on at 12:11 in the morning. The sad part is: I've seen this episode before.

But, anyway, back to what i was saying. I can't sleep. Which is apparently okay now, since i graduated high school and don't have to work tomorrow...i can stay up as late as i want. I'm in my pajamas with my teeth brushed and retainers in (don't laugh, i still wear them every night) but i can't sleep. I guess because i have so much to do. Not really, but i feel obligated to upload pictures and tell everybody who couldn't make it to graduation all about it!!! Because it was perfect.

All day, i'd been flipping out because they predicted thunderstorms. And, if that happened, the ceremony would have been in the auditorium, and each student gets only three guests. The rest would have to watch it on a screen in the gym, which is LAME. So all my family who came went out to Shady Maple (which is the most fabulous all you can eat schmorgasbord ever), and i was freaking the whole time about rain, even though it was sunny. Around three, my mom told me that the OJR website said commencement would be held outside. YAY!

So i got ready, and we took a billion pictures (see my facebook, haha) and my parents and grandma drove me to graduation (so they could save seats for the rest of the crew coming). I had to go to an assigned room to check in and line up. But we were there an hour and a half early (per instruction), so we all just hung out in the hallway and visited each other's classrooms. A bunch of the honored teachers (each graduate gets to invite their most influential teacher to the ceremony) came to visit, so i got to talk to a bunch of my old teachers, which was nice. My favorite spanish teacher ever (who was out on maternity leave for half of this year) came back, and all of us AP Spanish kids told her how much we missed her. and we got pictures with her and stuff.

Then one of the teachers had us line up, but it would up being too early, so we ruined the line by going and talking to other people. I stood in line right near the valedictorians and saludatorians (some of my really close friends) so me and Kristen (my AMAZING AMAZING best friend since FIFTH GRADE) hung around with them, contemplating the increasingly darkening clouds in the sky. Finally, it was time to go, and we all cheered, and it did like a wave of sound as it carried down the line in the hallway. The girls were in all the classrooms in a hallway upstairs, and the boys were in the hall directly below us, so we could alternate (a pair of girls, a pair of guys, and so on) so the two colors of our gowns (girls white, guys red) would alternate and look cool.

We all walked down to the field, and i got really excited. I kept looking at back at Kristen, who was only a few pairs away from me. Then they introduced the class of 2009, and we all walked across the stadium to our chairs. Once the ceremony started, it was so nice. All the speeches were interesting and funny and so true. A lot of the people talked about how talented our class is, which is flattering. I consider myself blessed to be a member of it.

I actually have a full memory of when i actually got my diploma cover. I remember hearing my name, walking across the platform and shaking hands with the schoolboard president/Myra/Dr Marchini, and they all smiled and me, and i remember walking across the field and back to my seat. I didn't go on autopilot (which is what i normally do when i'm in front of a ton of people) which i was proud of myself for. After they got through everyone, we all flipped our tassels to the left at once, then all us choir kids sang the alma mater. Then we sort of awkwardly tossed our caps/waved our caps/decided not to because we had to turn them in to get our diplomas afterwards. i sort of waved mine around but it never actually left my hand. Then we filed out and went to the parking lot where there we hugs all around. It wasn't too sad, because i'm going to see most of them again at grad parties and when we all come back to visit for the choir concerts/musical. I also talked to Mr. Venza, the teacher i invited. He was my first teacher in the district, and i met Kristen in his class. Hence us becoming best friends!

We went home after talking to everybody i wanted to talk to, and we ate cupcakes from the bakery. They were YUMMY, and very Katie Holmes. Then everyone sort of went to bed, except for me. because i just graduated. and i'm excited about it.

So that's basically my June 12th, 2009 for you! Now i have to go out into the world and make something of my future. Wish me luck!

Love from a high school graduate,
Kaitlin

I'm DONE WITH FINALS!!!!

I only had two (AP English and physics), and luckily they both fell on the same day. English was easy. Two essays, we had to pick a book/play we read in class that year and explain why it has literary importance. And for the other one, we had to pick a character and explain how that character taught us how to live a meaningful life. I used Equus for both essays (it was my favorite thing we read this year), and yes, that's the play with naked Harry Potter *eyeroll*. It's such an interesting play, so bizarre, but absolutely intriguing. When we acted it out in class, i was Dora Strang (the mom) and i had this huge monalogue where i had to cry and scream and it was SO FUN!!!! Anyway, i think i did well on that final.

My physics final wasn't as great. It was only seven questions, but they were really long math problems (not multiple choice) where you show all your work. I did about half of them really well i think, but the others i sort of guessed on. I blatantly made one up. It was about circuits, and we'd done a lab like it a couple weeks back. We had to make a model of a house and do all the electrical wiring. I had no clue what to do; my lab partner did it all and i stripped wires with the box cutter. So i completely bombed that question. But otherwise i think i did okay.

So i was out of school by 10, and i told Stephanie (my awesome boss!!!) that i'd be into work by 11:30. So to kill time, my mom and i went to Exton mall! I went to Aerie and shopped there for the first time EVER. OMG it is HEAVEN. so many cozy clothes! there was no one else in the store except the two girls working, so they were really nice and we chatted a little. I wound up buying a pair of sweatpants, shorts, a night shirt and five pairs of the most adorable underwear i have ever seen for $25. And i signed up for their A-List thing, where you get free gifts every month! YAYYYY AERIEEE!!!

Now i'm at work. I had this yummy cajun chicken and cheese sandwich for lunch. It was AMAZING. I'm babysitting the front desk for another few minutes and just relaxing. I've been wading my way through all the work i have to do, and i'm slowly beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It'll keep me busy for another day or two! I'll be in all day on Monday, and then Tuesday 8-3:30 because the choir banquet for the seniors starts at 5. We get senior gifts and yummy food! So much fun!

Wow i rambled a lot! It's been a really good day; everyone says i look super cheerful! Because it's a GREAT DAY!!
-K

Every day when i open my internet browser, Facebook pops up. Then i check my notifications and resume the stalking of my friends that Facebook facilitates so well. Up until yesterday, that is. During my last official AP English class, Mr. Wall (while handing out an article) asked us, "How many of you have the New York Times as your homepage?"

Needless to say, nobody raised their hand. He then continued, "You should. Even if ninety percent of the time you don't look at it, maybe you'll learn something on the one day you do."

And, considering Mr. Wall is a combination of the Godfather, Batman and a wizard, i'm taking his advice. I'll let you know what i learn. ;]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-david/adam-lambert-loses-homoph_b_206154.html

If this is true, i'm moving to Canada. I want to believe that Kris won American Idol because of his talent. I started liking him about a month ago, even when everyone else hated him because he "took allison's place, then he took Danny's." I'm not a sore loser who whines and makes excuses for her favorite who didn't win. I'm not mad at Kris for winning. He's good. His arrangements rock. He did everything the way i would do it if i was on Idol.

But if people voted for him because Adam's gay (and Jewish), that's just awful. Really folks, just because he wears eyeliner and hangs out with theatre people and isn't a small town country Christian...

It's really upsetting, considering all my friends do musical theatre, and we seem to be one of the few accepting types of people, at least in Republican Pennsylvania. Just because you don't agree with someone's lifestyle doesn't mean you should be scared of them or hate them unconditionally.

I really hope this isn't why Adam lost, because then i'd be embarrassed for my fellow Idol voters.




P.S. Kara Dioguardi needs to be fired. How immature is she? She allowed herself to feel threatened by a ditzy contestant, fought with her, then lowered herself to her level! Very unprofessional. Apparently i'm the only one who thinks so. Not to mention the Idol single is the worst one so far, and i'm pretty sure that was the only reason FOX added her to the panel in the first place, to try and write a decent song. I like the fan submissions better.

School has been winding down for a few weeks now, but this week, i've realized just how little i'm doing in any of my classes. I'm still learning stuff in calc, but then i go to spanish where me and Jenny have been going to the library every day to work on a project. which is basically done. Then i go to study hall/gym, then choir and lunch. We've been watching The Godfather in AP English, so that's easy. Then i go to another study hall and physics, where we've basically been doing labs for a week. and that's my day!!! love being a senior!!! :]

The last day i will ever have to be at OJR at 7 and stay until 2 is JUNE 4th!!!!!!!!!!!! then it's finals/half days friday & monday, not tuesday because i'm exempt from the spanish final because i have an A average for the year. HOping my grades will settle out as A's for some of my other ones, but i have 90s for final grades in physics/english which is SO ANNOYING. Who decided 92 was the cutoff for A's? I hope they suffer great physical pain equal to mine. They should be subject to the physics final. That seems appropriate. I'd planned on not taking the calc final, but my grade dipped after i missed a week of school in april for disney/NYC/PSU. my overall grade is back to a 92, which gives me no cushion for error. i have to keep it like that until the 28th. No pressure, Kaitlin. *bites nails*

The choir concert is Thursday. My last one ever :[ It's kind of sad, but i'm ready to graduate now. I'll be up at PSU again next Friday for orientation.

American Idol's finale starts tonight! I'm really happy with Adam&Kris being there. Adam has been my favorite since his first audition; i want him to win so bad. His voice is so incredible...it's just not normal. no one should be that good all the time, i love it!!! And i've been liking Kris more and more ever since disco week when he rearranged "She Works Hard For The Money". I guess i liked it so much because it reminded me of something i would do if i was on Idol. And then "Heartbreaker" last week was insane. But Kara makes me want to take a fork to my face, she can say SUCH STUPID THINGS! She picked the song for Kris, gave him ZERO instructions (and Simon said judges are allowed to help) and then said, "Why didn't you do it acoustic?" Then he comes out and does his second song acoustic. Then after that, she goes "Why didn't you do the first one acoustic?" BECAUSE HE DID THE SECOND ONE ACOUSTIC. WOW. Idol does NOT need four judges, it's why they've been overrunning their time slot. All Kara does is reiterate everything the other judges say. They just wanted her to write the coronation song so they wouldn't have to take fan submissions. Can we vote her off next season instead of Simon? Please?

*end soap box*

Okay, i'm going to catch up on last night's Gossip Girl finale! I've heard amazing things about the last five minutes!!!!

love <3