Monday, June 23, 2014

Really? Is This What You're Doing Right Now?

Stop reading my shitty blog that's composed mostly of me whining about literally anything and everything. Instead of venting my feelings about my "problems" or my semblance of a life, I should probably just suck it up; I assume that's what everyone else is doing. But then again, fuck everybody else. And fuck everything for everything. (Do you understand?)

And, so without further ado, I present, "Sammi Whining Like The Pansy She Is."

I’m scared you’ll realize how much I just want
to be a part of you
to be close to you
to write you as every character in every story I ever imagine

You are terrible
You’d make a great villain
You are sweet
You’d make a great hero
You are both

You’re great, darling

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

I'm Currently Using My Diploma as a Coaster

Hi, I'm Sammi Stolar. *Pause because my softball friends start screaming really loudly and I have to stop speaking* Jere Brophy told me that he is expecting something extremely deep from this speech. I’m hoping you all won’t judge me or my speech by its metaphorical resonance, or lack thereof. In a rejection of the clichéd, I’ve decided that any sort of attempt at a motivational or thought-provoking graduation speech with an underlying subtle, yet inspirational theme is out of the question. Instead, I’ve chosen to write a series of haikus.

Thank you thanks thank you
Thanks thanks thank you thanks thank you
Thanks Aunt Maria

Grams Barb and Stolar
Uncles Sal and Peter both
Pop-pop and Bonnie

Mom, Dad, Mikayla
Dani, Nate, Chris, Traudl
Kerry and Toby

Thanks, thanks, thanks again
My sincerest gratitude
For everything

That one is called “And to anyone else that I’ve forgotten (or more likely whose name won’t fit in the amount of syllables allowed in a haiku)” The following is for my friends at Harwood.

Softball is stupid
Though crazy, Harwood girls are not
Thanks for four great years

Seeing as I’ve attended a ski academy for the past five years, here’s a haiku about skiing.
Ski racing? No way.
I have laughed more than I’ve cried.
Was it a success?

That one was called “Maybe,” and the next poem is called “Ironical.”

TFIOS is good
The Grapes of Wrath wasn’t that great
but Kerry’s the best

Okay. This haiku is called “I don’t want to hear it Katy Rosen. You’re name is the title.”

Liezl, Natalie
Kara, Lexi, Christine, Geoff (read "Jeff" otherwise it's too many syllables)
Alexa, Ellie

Becca and Maggie
Katie fricken’ Utter
Eklutna, Clara

Thanks guys. I’m sorry
You had to put up with me
I love you guys tons


Finally, I’d like to thank everyone who has helped give me the opportunity to attend GMVS and the people who have made GMVS the place that helped make me into the person I’ve become.
And to the class of 2014, don't forget to be awesome.

***
I wasn't going for funny, but people kept laughing. I was going for efficient with no crying. And it totally worked except soon afterward Christine had to go home and then I was crying a lot. 


How my speech would have gone, were my grandparents not there:

Except the crush thing, because that would include having emotions other than anger.


Oh yeah. And prom? I wish I had stayed in bed.


 I'm taking so much pleasure in the fact that I never have to go back. I put up with the prom and the senior presentations and the graduation dinner with an embarrassing slideshow and the mostly bullshit graduation speech and a family lunch after graduation and the opening of presents I'll never use. (Seriously, do I really need a copy of Oh, The Places You'll Go! and Going Places? I'm not actually going anywhere. I'm going to college like an hour away from GMVS. (???????) That being said, Lexi gave me the most useful gift I've ever received: a TARDIS cookie jar filled with oreos) I'm done. It's all over and as torturous as it was, there are many times at GMVS that I enjoyed; they run parallel to all the times that I wasn't having fun at all. It's sort of difficult because I can't have one without the other.

I'm the one with a brain sitting down...

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Everything is Alright

All I've been saying is that I want to go home. Here I am; I still feel tethered. Since about March or so of my Junior year, I've been pretty checked out of GMVS. My early on-set senioritis has caused me to say on too many occasions, "I'm so done with GMVS." Then today, I asked myself when GMVS would be done with me. That probably seems like I'm trying to be poetic or some other stupid shit but really I'm not. I just feel plagued by the institution and the people existing inside of it; I feel forced, trapped, inside.

Anyway, all I really have to say is:
1. I miss my sister.
2. I wish Lexi was here right now.
3. I wish everyone would stop asking me if I was okay.
4. I wish I didn't ever have to leave my bed.
5. I don't want to go to prom.
6. I want to talk.
7. I don't want to talk.
8. I'm so angry.
9. I want to go home.
10. I am home.
11. I have no idea what I want.
12. Go back to number one and start the cycle all over again.