Sunday, September 21, 2003

   Whoah, a meaningful update...O_o'
I just got back from babysitting for some friends of my dad's. It's such a good arrangement, im my opinion. The kids I babysit are all Yu-Gi-Oh fans and have cards, so we spend much time playing the card game.

It's just so great. I get paid to play with kids. :D If I see them anywhere else I would talk to them or play with them anyways. Watching them amounts to a substantial amount of money too. I never name a price for them, I just accept what they give me. I never seem to take into consideration that a babysitter gets more money for watching three kids rather than one. Thus I am pleasantly surprised at the amount I am given.

I can't accurately describe the joy I have in that arrangement. :D

I watched The Princess Bride whilst there. I had forgotten how good of a movie it is. Heh, having had a year's experience of fencing, the fight scenes were a bit more spectacular this time. :D

I'm not entirely sure, since no one in my family is awake to tell me, but I think one of the five fish we got to day is dead. :-/

*yawn*

Otaku news: I was kept occupied this afternoon with a Newbie who wished to join my newest RPG, a digimon one, incidentally. He just couldn't decide on a digimon. I eventually had to choose a digimon myself and choose the digivolutions to be used as well. I'm still not sure if he's going to use it.

-_-; I only hope that this one works out.

W.H.A.T.E. (When Humans are the Enemy) has been revived, much to my pride and enjoyment. I'm really glad that it's still going relatively strong. To all of you who are participating in it and read this, thanks!

I think that's it for now. I'll post again tomorrow.
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Saturday, September 20, 2003

   Fishies!
Heh, I'll have to make this quick.

My mom, and younger siblings went to a yard sale today.

They got a fishtank, plus decorations, filter, food, and five fish for somethijg like $130. Considering one of the fish cost the original owner $90, they thought it was a good deal.

So now we're cleaning all the stuff and setting it up.

Eck, gotta go work. Update later.
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Friday, September 19, 2003

   *yawn* Today, today, what to say about today...
School stuffs first...

Day G

Period H: Honors French III
Got some quizzes back, good grades. Did some excercises and was warned about a quiz on Tuesday.

Period A: Off
I was spazzing out most of the period. The dreary weather, rather than having a calming effect, seemed to merely heighten my boredom and drive me to twitch and spout...eh... sounds, I guess.

Having it be an hour long did not help at all. >.<

Period B: Chemistry
Did an experiment with chromatography paper and alcohol. :p Heh, I did this in like, 7th grade already. We got homework, as always.

Period C: Theology II
Another day of "we'll just do this for a minute" followed by "oh well, time's up. We'll catch up on Monday."

Period D: Photography
Helped my spazziness a little bit. About 12 of 20-ish students in the class went through and around the school to take pictures. I stayed inside, doing nothing. Not helping the spazziness. Then we saw one of the groups outside, so we went out too. It was great, being outside in the cloudy, cool, windy weather. It greatly helped to calm me.

Period E: Algebra II
Quite a bit of a mess. Our teacher wasn't there, so we sat in the classroom and chatted for around five minutes. The topic at hand was an incident that ahd just taken place in the hallway. So-and-so had pushed sO-aNd-sO into a window, breaking it. No further details reached my ears.
Then another teacher came in to sub and informed us that our assignment, which our real teacher had said was due on Monday, was now due at the end of class. Near the end of class when nearly everyone had finished and was chatting, the sub apparently got nervous. She quieted us several times. Then she gave a boy in the back a detention for softly banging his head against the wall in a display of obvious boredom. She didn't bother asking who was making the noise, nor did she ask whoever was making it to stop. She merely waited for several minutes. Then, when she saw who it was, she gave him a detention for "deliberate disruption of class."

That was fricking ridiculous in my opinion. It just wasn't fair. he kid should have at least gotten a warning before assigned a detention. I'd like to have words with the Principal about that...

Period F: Honors English II
Eh, discussed the Book of Ruth from a literary point of view. Normally I'm good with things written in verse, and with "thee's" and "thou's", but this book was different. It was in what must have been a foreign form of the ancient writing, because I had difficulty wringing consistency from it. :p

We got our summer reading tests back. I landed a 72, I believe. I've been maintaining a 70+ average so far, and that's got me somewhat worried. Normally I'm much better at English. I'm convinced that it's just the way my new teacher teaches, but I still don't like the moderate grades.

Heh, I did the best on the section devoted to the book Mythology. It's funny because it was supposed to be a continuation of the mythology section (of our course) that we were supposed to do last year, but never got around to. So, that's good, I guess.

Eh, I went for my 3+ mile walk today. My dad drove the route that I walk and the meter read a 3.8 mile distance. It's probably less than that, though, since I don't turn as wide as our van does. That's got me pretty tuckered out. :p

Post later, probably.
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   Blech...
I haven't the energy for a full post right now. Perhaps later...

Sorry about no update last night, BTW. :p
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Thursday, September 18, 2003

Pfft...pfft...pfft...*points* "Inflatable Update."
Well, I went to the dentist's office today. I just found out that I even had one yesterday. :p This normally wouldn't be a problem, except that the soccer team's first game was today and I had to miss it. :-( Major bummer.

As it turns out, they lost 3-1 with another shot coming very close to going in. (It got past the goalie but was blocked by another opposing player.)

Hmm, going backwards to school hours.

G Period: Honors World History II
Test, which I barely finished. The teacher is incredibly awesome (his name is Rhonan!), so I'll probably get a good grade on it.

H Period: Honors French III
Regular class period, with me finishing my homework in the minute before class. It's a bird course for me. (I 'fly' right through it') I really don't know where my natural understanding of French comes from, it's frightening...

A Period: Off.
I spent a good deal of time trying to get my hands on a Community Service form, only to find that they're on file and are not allowed to be removed. I have to actually walk into the Campus Ministry Office and fill it out there. Major pain in the butt, that is. I applied for Sophmore Senate while there. (explanation later)

B Period: Chemistry
Another relatively easy course, we don't actually do much in it. It's the teacher's first year here, so he seems a little unsure of himself and what he can do. We spend most of the time talking about the same chemistry subjects over and over again.

C Period: Theology II
Heh, Mr. Leone is kind of funny. He's trying to get us caught up with the other class, but presents something else to us with the certainty that it'll "just take a sec." (Un)Fortunately, we rarely get around to the catching up part...

D Period: Photography
Today was a breeze. Almost literally, you might say. We were given free reign of the school to find and take three pictures each. My group went outside, where it was nice, cool, and windy. I took pictures of a large satelite dish being overgrown by a plant,a half-buried/broken playground toy, and tree trunk and branches. Heh, the last was just to use the film...

Period E: Algebra II
Eh, we're covering stuff that I've already done before. But I like math, and what we're doing is easy. My teacher said it's a good idea for me to take a break from the Honors math classes.

What bugs me is that there's this big doof in the front row who passes back his pencil to be sharpened everyday. I try to refuse, but he gives me a rather stern look, along with reproachful stares from all around me, seeming to say "Just do it."

I despise this boy now. And I'm sure he's not overly fond of me either now. Our teacher caught him in the act of receiving his sharpened pencil. The doof puts up a lame excuse which the teacher obviously doesn't appreciate. Tells him it's disruptive. I pray he'll never pass that pencil back again.

I'm afraid that I'll break it. >:/

That would not be good, I think.

Ah yes, Sophmore Senate. Apparently, an election was held last year during our lunch period to vote on our class officers for this year. No one in my class recall this event, and yet we were visited by our President and Vice President this morning. They were there to announce the formation of the Sophmore Senate. Basically, it's just a Student Council made up of reps. from each homeroom, but the Campus Ministry person who go up in flames if we called it one.

So it's called the Sophmore Senate. I applied this morning during my Off period. Hopefully I'll be able to do something for my ill-represented homeroom. :p

I really don't have anything against our President and Vice President, they are excellent choices for the posts. It seems to me to be kind of like why the 13 colonies rebelled against England: Representation. No one I have talked to remembers these elections, and yet we have our two smiling Executives standing before us. I feel that I must get to the bottom of this.

More to come later tonight...

Seventy-Five Cent Empire: $10.50


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Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Counting down...
Eight more days. You'd think that someone would be happy that their birthday would be that near. But the only thing I can think about is my party. More particularly the age groups involved, and where to have it.

Laser tag, as it turns out, is ridiculously expensive. In order to afford such a thing, I'd have to charge my friends admittance, which I muchly want to avoid.

Eh, the plot thickens...

Throughout all of this, I cling to something Solo once told me: "Obstacles are made to be overcome."

You have no idea how much that helps, Solo, with everything. It's been my one inspiration in all of my creative fields of interest. And pretty much anything else.

I still don't know how I'm going to fix all this.

I just realized that this must all seem quite silly to anyone who reads this. "Why's he making such a big deal over a birthday party?"

But, for me, it's the one time where I am the center of attention; attention of most of my friends, and their enjoyment of this event is very important to me. That, and I don't see about half of them except for maybe 5 minutes each day.

Eck...I've got to go to bed. More birthday stuffs later...

Seventy-Five Cent Empire update: $9.75
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   Ergh...nothing special...
Nothing much happened today worth writing about, so I'll fill this up with thoughts and stuffs...

Heh, I had three tests in three days in the same class. :p It wasn't particularly fun.

I joined Drama this year. Well, I had technically joined last year, but I tutored on all the practice days. :D I was on the Tech Crew, fortunately.

From what I hear, though, last year was a disastor anyways. Our original Drama Director was one of my teachers, Mr. Ayres. He did it for many years, I guess, until about two years ago. That's when they had directors that only stayed for a year and lacked organizational skill.

Luckily, when I joined this year, I found out that Mr. Ayres had taken over the Drama program again, having been embarrassed by the previous two years' plays.

So I'm on Tech Crew right now. I might act in the spring production, but the fall one didn't seem too interesting to me. Baseball-related...ergh...Well, it might have been deeper than that, but I couldn't get my hands on the script or character info. :p

We spent Monday doing manual labor; cleaning out the dressig rooms and Techie office. Not to mention the work that the stage needed. -.-

Well, that's all I've got so far on Drama, so let me think of something else to talk about...

Hmm, I revived my RPG, When Humans are the Enemy" which is based on the book I've written. Which reminds me, I need to find an agent to help me get the book published. >_<

Homework has wound down a bit from last year, eliciting more in class discussions. Good for some classes, intolerable for others. >.<

I went to soccer practice today at my Elementary School, I'm the Assistant Coach. To be more accurate, I'm a gopher. You know, "Go for this" "Go for that". Hahahahahah...eh...it's not that funny...I'm doing this to gain Community Sevice hours for the school I currently attend. I learned in my first year of High School that I enjoy doing community service, especially aournd my old school. I just have so many friends and other people I know there. It's as much of my home as my house is.

Eh, I've got to go do some homework. Or work on my fan fic; one or the other...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2003

   Whew...
I just got back from playing laser tag over in Mystic. It was fun, four free games! I got two for becomind a member, and two for being there on member night.

I am tired, sweaty, and to be brutally honest I probably don't smell too good. ^_^'

There was me, Eric, Matt Majewski a.k.a. "Jewski" or "The Jew", Lisa, Eric's sister Reagan(sp?), a small Mexican named Mark Sapia a.k.a. "The Mexican" or just plain "Sapia."

My vests, no matter which one I took, was defective...It was quite frustratingthat I would spend the first few minutes discovering that my equipment didn't function. So I would lose precious shooting time goign out to the "lobby" to find the marshal and get a new vest.

Grr...it was frustrating...I got poor scores for every game...
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   The Seventy-Five Cent Empire.
Here's how it goes: I get $3.00 for lunch everyday from my parents.

Due to ridiculous prices at my school, I get a grinder each day for $2.25.

Thus leaving me with 75 cents to spend as I wish. I decided this year to build an Empire from that small earning. A Seventy Five Cent Empire, nonetheless.

Somehow, one of my friends got into it and we started developing ideas about the Empire. He/We decided that it would be a feudaristdemonarchy. (I'll break it down later) So far we have designed a flag, gotten vassals to serve us, and started to create an imaginary army. It's fun. ^_^

Feudaristdemonarchy. This form of government was coined from loose interpretations of other forms of government.

Feuda-Feudalism. Pretty much the only thing we gain from this prefix is subserviant vassals. It was his idea to add it on...

Arist-Aristocracy. Tim (my friend) and I are the only two members of the Empire with any substantial rank, making us the sole aristocrats and rulers.

Demo-Democracy. Tim and I are the only two people who are actually in the Empire, the vassals are subject kingdoms/city-states/castles; thus we are the sole voters.

Monarchy-Monarchy. Tim and I are co-rulers of the Empire. Before anyone says it is unheard of to have two kings, It's not. I believe it was the Spartans who had two kings, one to leave in time of war and one to remain and govern. Tim and I merely expanded on their idea.

It's totally unnecessary of course, but like I said before, it's fun. :D

Profits thus far: $9
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Monday, September 15, 2003

   Keeping in mind...
About that last post, some of the things many people will not understand, simply because it was me "thinking aloud" only on a computer...o_O'
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