Dear Lauren,

Today feels like a great day to be alive.

It's not like anything spectacular happened today, I was mostly just tired throughout all of it, but today just seems brighter. Or maybe I should say tonight since it's almost one in the morning.

Maybe I'm so sleep deprived that I'm not my usual I-hate-life self. Or maybe it's because I've been listening to some upbeat songs lately like Happy and On Top of the World. Maybe it's a mixture of both.

I'm so tired yet I feel like I could do anything. The Karens, and the Alyssas, and the brothers, and the demon cousins, and even that boy who had to be at least two years younger than me, what's the word for it? Harassed? Catcalled? Whatever the word for passing someone by and then tapping them on the head and then letting out an imitation of a female moan is.

I really hate school. No amount of happiness will ever take that away.

I think the moral to take from today though, if there even is a moral, is that the power of music is a strong thing. Everything you listen to or think can be used to manipulate your mind, like how I tricked mine into thinking that the peppermint macaroon was actually raspberry. It didn't work that well through because my neighbor refused to stop reminding me it was peppermint.