The Tide Turns (Updated)

You glug and you glug,

salt water from sandcastle bucket.

You glug and you glug,

and the tide turns in your stomach,

splash your shoes.

You complain the tap-water runs solid white,

you dangle fishing lines for crabs

but they're not interested,

I'm your only bite.

Los Campesinos!, There Are Listed Buildings

Today is going to be my first day of Norwegian lessons. However, instead of getting their act together, the class is going to be at some stranger's house in Kenmore where I will be the only teenager for sure, alone and freaked out beyond repair. I really don't want to go.

And I would skip it, but you have to register on the first day. So I CAN'T skip it, or else I can't take the class at all, and it's a Christmas present and I want to learn Norwegian. A lot.

Tonight is also a big Stage Fright event, in Seattle of course, which I was going to try and convince my dad to take me to after Norwegian, even though I'd be very late... It's the party for the release of our anthology and I really wanted to be there.

But now, even if my dad had agreed to take me (which he didn't, despite the fact that no one on the Youth Guild will answer my emails and they'd all be there, where I can just talk to them) I would never make it in time for anything.

Needless to say, I'm hating this day very much.

I don't know what I'm going to do.

On the bright side, "There Are Listed Buildings" is free as the Song of the Day on KEXP. Check it out, as their new album comes out the 26th of this month (and Vampire Weekend's came out yesterday!).

UPDATE: Hollywood and General Knowledge dictate that there should have been a hot guy my age taking Norwegian. The closest was a ninth grade boy (AKA not close). I went and the teacher was nice and the class was small... I would have liked to go to Stage Fright to see my friends there, but I suppose they'll have to wait. I had been wanting to talk to Paul*, though.

*Changed name, see index.