umbrella

feeling broken, feeling bruised

but they tell you to be strong

somewhere there's another sun

but rainstorms are so long...

there's darkness and there's light

there's silence and there's sound

but there is an umbrella here

raindrops don't hit the ground

said Newton: gravity is a law

but laws are to be defied

raindrops fall but dreams come true

because your tears have dried

another thought-cloud:

Barnes and Nobles coupon expires today, I need to write my anchor, science organelle project due Wednesday OHNO, I want a friendly neighbor, we need to cancel our Netflix because nobody has used it for at least 2 months already, time to register for my boarding school interview(!), finally cut my journalism interview project to 917 words, I haven't read any magazines for a few days, I'm kind of hungry, why are Americans so obese, China is rising... America is slipping... badbadbad(!), my ponytail is thin today, I wonder if I can cry on will, YAY I got an Outstanding certificate in my first MUN conference, because of that I might be able to go to the Chicago MUN trip in December, which is expensive but sounds like a lot of fun, I wonder if I like MUN or speech and debate better, it's so weird that Albert, the CEO of Cheap Irvine went to the exact same high school as I was supposed to had I stayed in Massachusetts, so it's like a sort of extended super weird coincidence of Newton, MA -> Irvine, CA, no wonder his cell phone area code was 617, I wonder if I can keep my faucet turned off since supposedly love can't be suppressed, I wonder why everybody's in such a rush, it's sad how you always get to know people as they're leaving, I wonder who's gonna be ATA junior prez, I feel bad for neglecting half of my duties to do the other, I wonder if Mrs. Sloate has read my email about not doing winterguard yet, I hope I won't have to go to PE, I WANT TO GO TO ANDOVER GODDAMMIT, I friended this Joon Buhm on facebook just so I could snoop around on his Andover-ey life, I wonder if that makes me a stalker, I want some Starbucks or boba but the TIMES article said that America needs to learn from China and save more money and damn that makes me self-righteous and determined to not spend money, I wonder if anybody's actually going to read this. I wonder why this helps so much. I can focus now! Anchortimeeeee!