Green...#GoForth

Today is forest green because I’m sick :(

Nah, that’s not the only reason.

Today is green because the desks in my physics classroom are green, and it is upon that surface I want to lay my head down in defeat and finally admit that I don’t get I, I’m not the smart blond, and sometimes science just doesn’t make sense. But I’m not giving up without a fight, and for me that means at least one more quiz. At least one more topic.

Today is green because I had a doctor’s appointment yesterday and the room was painted like under the sea and as I got my flu shot, a little green fish was smiling at me. (Hey that rhymed…maybe I should consider poetry? Hah, no) And that little green fish was still there as I found out I have a slight curve to my spine and will have to get an X-ray for the second time in my entire life. The first time was when I had an odd, inexplicable pain in my toe that lasted for months and then mysteriously went away like Mary Poppins.

Today is green because I’m jealous of all those writers and bloggers who have the time and dedication to write or post every day. Maybe someday I’ll be able to sit down for three hours and simply WRITE, but as of now I’m just happy that I could crank out four pages of who knows that that sort of sounded pretty and I could label as “half of a short/medium/possibly long story”.

Today is green because my tissue box is green, and it’s been my conjoined twin ever since I got home. People look at you funny if you walk around school with a tissue box, so I use those cute little packets until I can go home and carry around this apparently lumbering and ostentatious cardboard box. I swear, it’s been three hours and I’m almost finished with the whole thing.

Today is green because the senior who made me a shirt chose a green one, and I love it, it’s beautiful and I’ll be so happy to wear it tomorrow. I just really hope I don’t get stickered. At my school, the seniors do this obnoxious ritual where they take stick labels with horrendous things written on them and stick them on unsuspecting underclassmen. Last year I was spared. But this year, I’m a half an inch taller, and hey they might notice me now. Better watch my back.

Today is green because I wish I was upstate in the mountains, with all that lovely nature stuff around me like trees and grass and wildlife. Firstly, because it is gorgeous up there and freeing and all those lovely things. Secondly, because that would mean I wouldn’t have to go to school tomorrow, or next week for that matter, and I could instead sleep for about forty days and forty nights (a good solid number, just ask anyone) and feel a heck of a lot better.

Today is green because…eh, I’m done with that. There’s this MAGNIFICENTLY AMAZING COMMERCIAL I would like to share with you. Normally, I detest commercials as much as any self-respecting TV-watcher. When I’ve already decided to take the time out of my schedule to pencil in a hearty episode of Modern Family or whatever I don’t need to sit around watching moms pour detergent onto polo’s and watch the stains magically erase.  But THIS commercial, this Levi Jeans commercial, shocked me because in the background, instead of playing some sort of indie elevator music, it had something that resembled slam poetry.

I can remember my first night at writing camp, way back when in June, where everyone followed this super friendly girl from New Jersey up into her dorm room to watch slam poetry on YouTube. I had always liked it, appreciated it, and because I am both a writer and a performer and this was undoubtedly a pretty good combination of the two.  And since hearing slam poetry preformed in all the brilliant and exhilarating ways that YouTube had to offer, I’ve liked it even more.

So hearing it in the background of this made me smile. :)

I hope you liked, or at least found it interesting.

~Katelyn