There's this line, in You've Got Mail, where Tom Hanks says that the autumn makes him think of bouquets of freshly sharpened pencils.

I love that smell.

In a few weeks...the stress of five APs, of keeping all of these As spotless and lined up neat and identical on my report card, lined up like soldiers, will ruin this, but right now, before the first day, everything about school is still perfect and clean and waiting for me. I love school. I love learning. I love hanging pictures on a locker door, I love the crisp covers on textbooks, I love the smell of an eraser on the page. I love school.

And right now, still...it loves me back.

Tomorrow's the High School National Latin Exam. Last year, I only got summa cum laude and the gold medal; this year, I want the perfect paper certificate. I've studied so much...

...I think I'm going to puke.