Ways Michael Jackson has impacted my life:

1. My friend Jordan saying I sang higher than Michael Jackson in the car on the way to sixth-grade grad
2. Dancing to Thriller with a bunch of friends on Field Day last year (or what is now last year. actually only 8 days ago.)

Michael Jackson is dead.

Wow. That was sudden.

I was in the car when I heard the guy on the radio go "Eighties pop icon Michael Jackson has died at the age of fifty at a hospital near his Hollywood residence of unknown causes. Blah blah...possible overdose...blah...upcoming tour...blah blah..."

I mean, it's not like I'm into Michael Jackson-ish music. I'm not a disco person. But he's like, an icon, you know? Everyone knows Michael Jackson. My mom grew up with him always on the radio or the TV.

And it got me thinking--what about when I'm my mom's age? What about when, oh, I don't know, Britney Spears dies? How will I feel? (Not that I like Britney. Far from it. But you get the idea.

Anyway... Only a week into summer vacation, and I already kind of miss school, as my friend ML-Cloud9 (look her up) pointed out earlier. Mostly cause I miss my friends. Emily and Amanda and Julia and Malika and Milica and Sydney and Betsy and Casey and Skyler and Stella and Theresa and Deja and...everyone. Luckily, I've managed to keep in touch with most of them--I'll see Julia tonight, and I'll be at a party with Stella, Tessa, and Theresa tomorrow--but it's not the same.

Sigh.

I'm going back to my Young Wizards fanfic, World to World. I think I'll still work on Carly's Story, though. I'm very fond of it.

Still none of my pictures have been uploaded. Sketches, I mean. Still no scanner. But there might be one here at the house in Seattle we're staying at. I'll look for it this afternoon, I guess.

Bye for now!
Anna