Monday, November 15, 2004

   Yeah, okay. That was weird. And yet good!

Late last night I got an IM from some girl. Now, I'd never seen the screen name before, and I'd never heard of this girl before. Apparently, she found my screen name from my infrequently accessed Xanga, which I use to appease the masses who don't have MyO accounts. =p

Anyways, we got to talking, and one of the things that actually caused her to IM me was the fact that she lives in Connecticut as well. I was like, whoah....somebody I met online who actually lives within five hours of me. :o Actually, she's only about a half hour away. And she comes to Groton just about every weekend with her dad for grocery shopping and such.

I guess you could say we "hit it off" because we talked until quite late, and actually started making plans to get together this weekend. 0_o;; It seems very sudden to me, looking back on it, but as of then it seemed like the most natural thing there was. I mean sure, why not get together? She seemed really nice, and she absolutely adored me. >_>;;

(I was being my usual charming self, you understand. =p)

And yet, some of it wasn't my normal self. It was as if I had adopted the lingo of a unhappy rebel teenager, and yet still acted the same....? I complained about my parents making me pay for my own driving classes (which isn't really an issue with me) and I played it up about how cool it would be to drive (which I'm not...particularly...excited about). But, geez, I sounded just like one of "them." 0_o

The girl sent me pictures, which I guess is a sort of necessary online ritual whenever a male and female meet online, or something. *rolls eyes* She's pretty, but had the whole black hair, black lipstick, black clothes highlighted with bright pink stuff sort of deal going on in the pictures. There were a couple pictures where she wasn't all Goth-ed out, and she had pretty blonde hair. She referred back to that hair color whenever she said something stupid. =p

Eh. I'm reluctant to say anything to my parents about meeting her, as they're a bit uptight about me having anything to do offline with people I know from the Internet. And I can't really ask my sister to drive me anyplace, because she'd go straight to my parents. She had a guy she was talking to online quite a while ago, and it started a whole family argument that didn't cool off for months after she was restricted from internet access. That, and there'd be no living with her if she found out I was meeting a girl.

"Ooooooh, Ben's got a girlfriend!"

>_<;

I'd never live it down.

And the thing is, I'm not naturally an outgoing person. At least, not offline. The girls that actually know me only know me because they've had to spend time with me. It's not like they decided "Hey, that kid looks cool, I'll try hanging out with him for a while." Amanda, Megan, Angela, Angela, and Lisa I met through Fencing; Christina, Victoria, and Raine were stuck in after school Daycare with me at SHS. I don't really have any girl *space* friends in my own grade. >>

Anyways, here's some out takes from my talk with Khristie:

*Khristie says she visits a ton of Xangas randomly*

Legoboy1: So, what made you decide to IM me?
Legoboy1: Or do you IM everybody you come across? :p
PoUrNnKo: I'm not so sure...haha, no, not everyone..
PoUrNnKo: You're just cool, 8-)/
PoUrNnKo: .*
PoUrNnKo: haha


PoUrNnKo: What's your name?
Legoboy1: Ben
PoUrNnKo: Hehe
PoUrNnKo: Cool
Legoboy1: Hence the "Benbo_Baggins" Xanga. :-P
PoUrNnKo: Well, I forgot! I'm blonde, what do you expect?
PoUrNnKo: I'm Khristie.
PoUrNnKo: :-D.
Legoboy1: I know. =p
PoUrNnKo: Do ya now?
PoUrNnKo: That's a wee bit creepy.
Legoboy1: I read your Profile. :-P
Legoboy1: "Buddy Info"
PoUrNnKo: Oh....hahaha...again, blonde.


*me, acting up a storm*

Legoboy1: I'll be driving in a while, though. How scary is that? XD
PoUrNnKo: Haha! yay!!
Legoboy1: I'll be trying to get to school, and end up in like, Massachusetts. :-P
PoUrNnKo: I love being a threat to the world.
PoUrNnKo: Hahahahaha
Legoboy1: And the whole, car to body accident thing. Yeah. >>
Legoboy1: I'd be a major hazard in that respect, too.

*The beginnings of something? And my witty response. =p*

PoUrNnKo: ....I'm starting to like ya, kid..
Legoboy1: Oh no! Quick, block me!
PoUrNnKo: No way!
PoUrNnKo: You're cool.


PoUrNnKo: Lol
PoUrNnKo: Dude, we should hang out sometime.
PoUrNnKo: :-D, because I'm cool like that.
Legoboy1: Yeah, sure. :-P


*after saying something about her previous boyfriend, who dumped her*

PoUrNnKo: there's more men out there...and I think i'm talking to a pretty spiffy one right now.
PoUrNnKo: ;-)

PoUrNnKo: Again, it's the blonde in me.
PoUrNnKo: It's ok.
Legoboy1: It must be nice to have something to blame for every misunderstanding. :-P
PoUrNnKo: Yup, you could just say your a man..
Legoboy1: I....yeah.
Legoboy1: v_v
PoUrNnKo: Lol
PoUrNnKo: It's ok, men are good.
PoUrNnKo: Especially cute ones, much like yourself.
PoUrNnKo: ;-)
Legoboy1: *rolls eyes* We're both so complimentary tonight. =p
PoUrNnKo: I dunno about you...lol, but I'm flirting.

And there you have it. v_v;; Khristie and I may be getting together this weekend, provided I can contact her and work something out. The whole thing feels pretty sudden and yet pretty cool all at the same time.

Uncertainty vs. Positive Anticipation

Yay, conflicting emotions!
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Sunday, November 14, 2004

   Oh dear.
Right, so...that whole chapter review I was supposed to do this weekend for History. Yeah, that was totally forgotten about until a moment or two ago. I'm such a forgetful moron sometimes. >_>

I got up this morning and watched about half of Big Fish, and then my dad had us all go down to Coffee and Donuts at Sacred Heart. I guess he was in a bit of a hurry, because I had barely gotten finished getting dressed when he was out in the car. x_X' Rather than try his patience, which has been rather iffy lately, I skipped putting in my contacts and went out to the car.

We visited a while at Sacred Heart with the assorted parishioners we knew, and I had myself a couple of donuts for breakfast. I talked to the other leaders of the newly-forming Youth Ministry, and informed them that I had dress rehearsal on Wednesday and probably couldn't make it to the meeting we had scheduled. Hopefully the lack of my presence will not keep people like Christina and Victoria from going to the meeting. I was the one who got them involved, and they may not want to dive right in just yet.

So, we'll see. Maybe I'll get out of rehearsal at a reasonable hour. Maybe not. x_o'

Bleh. I've got works that needs doings, and little times to be doings it. :o

I'll be staying through after school Mon-Wednesday this week. I only hope that I don't get exorbitant amounts of homework during this time. I've got enough on my plate as it is, thank you. >:\

Tech week. Hell week. Whatever you want to call it. We've got it this week. Sounds cues, lighting, and the set. They all have to be ready, as well as the actors. Costumes came in yesterday, so the actors can get a feel for them before the shows at the end of the week. We can't have any mistakes. We don't have time for mistakes. Last week, there were far too many instances of actors calling "Line."

*twitch* Yay, stress. :o

What's even better/worse: I have a fencing competition on Saturday. I've been to one practice, and I can't go to the one on Tuesday. I might possibly be able to go on Thursday, but that's only if I don't have homework. I'm working on Thursday as it is.

*feels pressure rising*

O-O;;

It's only when I sit and think about stuff like this that I actually feel the strain of what's happening, or what will happen. At the time when the actual event occurs, I play things by ear. I just go along with whatever's happening.

So, I'm stressing over what will ultimately be nothing to me. Yay for inexplicable emotional paradoxes.

*twitch*

I'm thinking Tourniquet is my favorite song on this CD, for the simple fact that I remember it better than any other. Or maybe it's the subject that I'm interested in. The idea of salvation, and God being the "Tourniquet" of a bleeding soul. Hmm...

I'm listening to Haunted right now, and I must say I like hearing the chorus of voices sing along in the background. "Haunting" indeed.

Imaginary is nice as well. >> I can relate to the idea of wanting to be to myself for hours. And yet, I'm aware of what's going on whenever I'm away like that. My mom sees me as a sort of hermit, holed up in my room as I am apt to be. And yet, heh, I remain aware of what's happening in the family. The sounds all travel up my staircase. =p

....I'll stop there, before I go through each and every song. XD

Love you all lots. ~_^
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*high-fives Alex*
Disproving Adahn is so much fun. =p
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Saturday, November 13, 2004

I've really got to get out of this habit of posting late at night. I run the risk of falling asleep or something. =p That, and I wind up being pressed for time.

So, I woke up today pretty late. 11-something. I actually got up earlier, like 9, but decided that I should get as much sleep as I conveniently could. When I finally did get up, I turned on my heater and plopped myself in front of my laptop. I checked a couple of my friends' Away Messages.

"SNOOOOOOOOW!!!"

It took a couple of messages such as that to convince me to actually go over to my window and take a look for myself. Lo and behold, there was indeed snow! Not a heck of a lot, but hey, it was totally unexpected. ^_^

So, I'm sitting there at my computer for a little while, browsing OB and MyO, and then I hear footsteps on the stairs coming up to my room. I recognized them as my dad's footsteps, as his tend to be a bit heavier than the rest. He leaned into my doorway, and waved me over towards him. He held up a white paper envelope about the size of a good book. It was a little U.S. Postal Service package that just came in the mail today.

He pointed at the recipient address. It was addressed to me, at our house. He then pointed to the sender.

ALEIA!

My dad helped me to open it, as I was still waking up and couldn't see all that well without my contacts in. In it we found a couple different Egyptian candies, an envelope, and an Evanescence CD!!!!!

^__________^

I ate the candy for breakfast, and immediately popped the CD into my laptop. It's been playing ever since. =)

My opinion still holds: Evanescence is the only band/group/singer that I like every song I've heard by them. Partially because I don't seek out music, I'd imagine. I'm sure I could find some other entity that I like as much, or find some Evanescence song I don't like. But, heh, that has yet to happen. ^_^

I watched Pulp Fiction either last night or this morning, and I've yet to get around to watching Big Fish. I'll probably watch that tomorrow morning. I went to Mass this evening, so I have all morning tomorrow to do what I want. I work from 12-5, though, so some of that "whatever I want" ought to be homework. >>

Oy. I've already been told to go to bed twice by my dad, so I'd best be off.

TSC2 4-3V3R!
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Friday, November 12, 2004

   Bleh.
*reluctantly sets aside Gamecube controller*

It took me a full fifteen minutes to accomplish that. :o

*tilts head from side to side*

Now, first things first. Kei and I had a duel on AIM last night. Apparently, she had some new cards that she built a new deck out of. Before last night, her deck had been rather outdated and inconsistently effecient. [/politically correct] :p

Last night, though. Wow. She held the lead for the majority of the time, and we were at such odds with each other that it was rare that we actually made any offensive moves. It seemed like every card she played, I would destroy, and every one I played would be destroyed somehow as well. Back and forth, and back and forth. :o

A lot of times we both ended our turns without doing anything besides drawing a card. We simply did not have anything to do. :o

Then I drew my Cyber Jar, which would greatly replenish both of our depleted resources and provide an end to the duel! I stared at it a moment, and indicated such to Kei. I slowly and myseteriously set the card down by itself on the field. Kei was nervous. >>

I think she may have brought out a monster to attack it, but whatever the case, on my turn I activated Cyber Jar. We both got five cards; she had four monsters immediately go to the field, I had 2, or something. But the three Spells and Traps that I drew practically assured my victory. Ceasefire, which would stop the special abilities of most of the monsters she just brought out, and at the same time it would take a chunk out of her LifePoints. 3000 from her 5800, I believe it was. The duel was winding down. I had out my Airknight Parshath, which would deal damage no matter which position her monsters were in. I powered it up excessively and ran over one of her smaller monsters, bringing her down to a measley 700. Then I activated another Trap: Ring of Destruction. It destroyed one of her monsters and did 1700 damage to both of us. Bye bye Lady Kei. >___>;;

Seriously though, the middle of that duel was just crazy. Not that it was really full of action, but just for the fact that it wasn't. We went back and forth at each other so much that nothing significant really happened until I played Cyber Jar. Which is....just...crazy. x___X;;

I had four cards left in my deck out of forty when the duel ended. On my fifth turn from there or sooner, I would have lost by default. :0

....craziness. Now if only I could find where I saved the duel. >>;;

"So Ben, How Was Your Day?"

This morning was considerably miserable for me. I was up late last night playing Yu-Gi-Oh with Kei and talking on AIM, so I only got a few hours of sleep. v_v;; I didn't want to get up in the morning, and my mom had to wake me up a number of times before I actually got out of bed. Then I had to take a shower, because I had neglected to last night and I was still pretty craptastic from last night's practice.

So I took my shower, and grabbed a low-carb-shake-thing for breakfast. It wasn't great, but it was better than nothing. My dad drove me to school, because my mom would have been late to work had she driven me.

When I arrived at school, I realized that we had a free dress day today for the cost of $2. I had totally forgotten, and so I was in my uniform. The money was for a good cause, though, so I paid the $2 and wore my hoody throughout the day. I was nice and warm and comfortable. ^_^

Period A: Honors French IV
We went over the next section in our book, which is about the imperfect tense. It's still a bit of a review, but Mr. Ayres wants to make sure we've got the tense down pat before we move onto something else. We translated a couple of questions together that we have to answer over the weekend, and got our last tests back. The test was on a French movie we just watched, called Diva.

It's been a while since I last saw a three-digit grade on my papers, and boy did I realize how much I missed them.

I got a 100! Yay! ^____^

Period B: Honors Pre-Calculus
The test in this class wasn't nearly as hard as the last one I had to take, which I didn't finish and took me about an extra half hour to come near completion.

I think I may have swapped two of the answers, but the general concensus among my classmates indicates that I got the rest of them right and the bonus question correct as well. ^_^ So, that ought to turn out well.

Period C: Honors English III
Mr. Lamoureux spent the period on a tangent-ridden rant concerning our last papers and the corrections that we should be making. I pulled a C off of my last paper, which I deemed to be fantastic. I barely formatted the paper, and it was poorly constructed. In other words, I knew it was crap, and I
m grateful for an average grade on admitted garbage. =p

I will get to rewriting just as soon as I talk to Mr. Lamoureux. On....Monday. Right. >>

Tomorrow's the Craft Bazaar up at school. I'm supposed to work at one of the food booths, for either Fencing or my class, but I don't know if I'll be going. I'd like to, as it's fun to hang out with people I know, and I enjoy selling clam chowder. =p Plus, I get service hours for going, which I am in short supply of at the moment.

I watched Pulp Fiction after work today, and I have Big Fish to watch sometime this weekend. Working at a library seriously rocks sometimes. ~_^

I'll get back to this post later on, but for now I'm diving back into Metroid Prime. v____v;;;
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Thursday, November 11, 2004

*groans*
Some days, updating for TSC2 can feel like a chore. :o

I'm in the middle of a duel with Kei, I'm tuckered out by fencing practice, I need a shower (due to fencing practice), and I need to research and put together an outline for my next English paper.

My contacts are all dry and uncooperative, and I feel pretty nasty. I definitely need a shower after going to practice. There's a certain...eh...fragrance about my equipment that rubs off each time I wear it. >>

This morning I got up, got dressed, and ate breakfast. (Wow, that's cool and interesting, eh?) Earlier on (before I got up >>) my dad brought my younger sister over to a walk-in clinic to have blood drawn and tested. She's going to be meeting with Becky soon, so that maybe she can rethink what she's eating and doing. That, by the way, would be fantastic. Neither of my younger siblings eat well, nor do they exercise much. It has begun to show recently, and everyone is rather concerned. Except them, for some reason. Yeah, Emily's on her way to better health, hopefully. *smiles*

I went to stage crew set construction stuff from 9:30-ish to about 1:45. That was really cool, heh. I got to work alongside my friend Amanda, painting and measuring and such. It was much fun, even though we didn't accomplish as much in a four hour period as we should have. v_v;;

The other guys were screwing around, in all honesty. They'd work good for a few minutes, and then get distracted and fool around for a few more. Amanda, me, and our painter, Tim, were the ones who worked most consistently. We may not have gotten the most work done compared to the others, but we got the better work done, and in a timely fashion.

I got home and lounged for a couple of hours until I had to get ready and go to fencing practice. I scraped the rust off of my blades with some steel wool and waxed them down to protect against further rusting.

My dad drove me up to practice. We stretched, and sprinted, and drilled, and drilled some more. Coach Hughes was the only one there tonight, so the JV and Varsity were sort of neglected in favor of the aspiring Novices. It's not that he intentionally ignored our need to practice; he just wanted the Novices to have some basic knowledge of fencing. Tonight was only the second practice, after all.

Anyways, after some drills and basic instruction that left the JV and Varsity snoozing, coach had us stretch again, and let the Novices leave. For the last half hour of practice, the rest of us were allowed to free fence and such. 'Twas much fun. ^_^

I came home, and dueled Kei. More about that crazy event later, when I'm coherent enough to relate it properly.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004

   The End is Near
Well, I'm limited on time and stuff to talk about, so I'll fall back on the schedule of my day, and embellish as necessary. I think I'm good at that. Or maybe it's just the sleep deprivation totally whacking out my senses. Who knows? :0

So, first period today was Sociology. I used the first five minutes to finish up my last two problems for Pre-Calculus. I didn't get them done last night because of "Mr. Procrastinator." He reared his oh-so-similar-to-mine-and-therefore-handsome head and prevented me from completing my work. Bah, I say to him. Bah!

The rest of the period was the usual notes and kooky discussion that always generates from it. Sociology is such an interesting topic to study because it has so much practical application in today's world. Examples of deviant behavior are everywhere in our society. This, consequently, makes it a bit easier to teach for Mrs. Bednarz, because for the most part we can relate to what it is that she is saying.

French was...well, French. =p I got back my guided composition, with a 9/10 grade on it. I had a bunch of accents backwards (I've never been very good at them) and I think I missed a subject-verb agreement somewhere. So, all in all it was pretty good.

Pre-Cal. Yech. I understand how to do the problems, and how to set them up. It's just these random facts that Mr. Pukstas wants us to know that I simply don't see the relevancy of. I mean, why can't the Sine of a number be considered "Opposite over hypotenuse" instead of "Y/R"? That's the way he talk it to me in the first place! SOHCAHTOA! And now he's changing things, and it's making me confused.

We corrected some take-home tests in English. My friend Gillian and I had been debating an answer yesterday in our Off period, and as it turns out my answer was correct. ^_^ She argued it, though, and so Mr. Lamoureux threw the problem out. =/ Points of mine down the drain. But, it proved that I had interpreted the poem correctly whereas she had not! The support she had for her argument was spurious and falsely based. I didn't realize that her support was faulty at the time we were debating it, otherwise I could have swept her whole position out from under her. Nuts.

We got some information about purgatory today in Theology, although not the entire argument for it. I'd really like to get this stuff in my notebook and readily accessible so that next time some thread in the Otaku Lounge brings it up, I can defend the faith. Yay-ness. ^_^

Psychology was interesting; we were given a sheet with optical illusion stuff on both the front and back. We took some notes and more kooky stuff was brought up. =p

History was my final period of the day, and I knew that we had a test this period. I had expected, though, the same sort of test we've had all year. Lots of multiple choice (guess) and fill in the blank questions. Maybe an essay or two.

The test was about 2-4 pages, front and back. Everything was mini-essay/short answer. There were lines enough for a short answer, but the answers themselves required a short essay. It was a fine line to walk. The thing about this test was that it required you to have an intimate knowledge of this chapter from the book. I didn't know everything from the chapter, and so I don't expect I did as well as I would have if the test had been in the regular format. u_u'

I stayed after for a couple of minutes to finish up the test, and then got changed and went to work on the Drama set. Today I laid down tape on the lines I drew yesterday, and somebody painted over them, as they were supposed to. Then I rolled some water/glue solution onto a large piece of fabric in order to stiffen it and made it more susceptible to paint. That's about it, I believe. Then those of us who were left just sort of hung out onstage and chatted for a while. Anastasia (Sophomore girl, plays the main part in the play) was there with a bunch of other Freshman/Sophomore girls so we talked with them for a while.

I stepped out for a little while, and was accosted by a girl in my class, Britney. Well, not so much accosted as stopped and talked to for a very long time. She was rather hyper, and she was stuck at school for a while before her sister would come and pick her up. We talked about random stuff, and my ingrained manners prevented me from telling her to leave me alone. >> She talked endlessly, and I really wanted to get back to the auditorium.

Eventually she went and got some chips from the vending machine, and I made a break for the auditorium. When I got there, though, nobody was there! O_o;;

I later found out that they (Ryan, Zach, Anastasia, and...somebody) had gone out to dinner. Without me! Anastasia said that she knew somebody/something was missing, and apologized profusely. Ryan was apologetic too, and said that had I been in the auditorium he surely would have invited me along.

So, sometime after play practice began, I wandered around the lobby, eating my dinner of packaged vending machine-bought dried fruit and a bottle of water. =p

My mom was on call tonight, and was busy at work, so she couldn't pick me up. My dad is still recovering from the surgery he had last Friday, and is unfit to drive. So, I got a ride home from Tyler's (Freshman, used to go to SHS with me) mom and watched Whose Line is it Anyways? with my dad and sister.

Tomorrow morning, 9-1 I have tech crew stuff. More set building/preparing and such. And then, tomorrow night I had fencing practice from 6:00-8:30. It'll be fun to fence again, but my day isn't left with much time to do homework or other important stuff.


Like laser tag with David. =p
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Tuesday, November 9, 2004

   Teh Stuffness!
Stuff!

Stuff!

Stuff!

STUFF!

o_o;;

I was at Saint Bernard's for 13+ hours today. =o

I was dropped off shortly before 7:44, which is when we have to be in homeroom. Classes went from 7:52 to 1:45, as they normally do.

From 2:00-4:15ish, I worked on the set for The Secret Garden. Today I mostly measured and drew lines to guide the painting that we will soon be doing. I also rolled a whole bunch of a glue solution over a framed bit of fabric, to make it stiff, and therefore better to hold paint.

I screwed up a number of times with the measurements, and many a yard long line had to be erased. >> I blame the measuring stick though; it didn't measure the same as the other two. We proved it. So I used the other ones, and the work was eventually finished a bit more precisely.

Ah, speaking of precisely, Mr. Pukstas, my Pre-Calculus teacher, is nuts! There is so much stuff that he expects us to learn and be able to spout off of the top of ours heads at a moments notice. We need to be able to recognize certain patterns in angles that seem completely different to us. We need to know all of this by heart, by Friday. Friday, when we have our test. x____X;;

After we were done "constructing" for today, Mr. Ayres left and I sat down to do some homework. Random people passed through the auditorium, chatting amongst themselves and fooling around. I finished reading a story for English, and I got some studying done for my History test tomorrow afternoon. My friend Ryan offered to pick me something up at McDonald's, as he was heading there anyways. Lisa had almost freaked out earlier when I told her I was staying at school until the end of practice tonight, and pretty much demanded that I let her buy me dinner. >>

So, Ryan got me a cheeseburger off of the dollar menu to tide me over until Lisa came, about an hour or two later. I gratefully accepted my grinder from Lisa and systematically annihilated it. (Ate it in my usual ridiculously fast fashion >>)

People started to trickle in from all over for play practice. (OMG, They were mostly early!!!11!!1) Lisa did her usual "warm-ups" with them, which involve a number of exaggerated mouth movements, and a bunch of silly things to get people to loosen up. ^-^

I sat off to the side and watched them all act like fools, absently flipping through my script to mark entrances and exits, which it is my job to know.

I really missed out, though. :o There was this one exercise, which I'd never done before. It involved lots of hugging. :0! Lisa would pair people off, and they had to give each other the biggest, most meaningful hug they could manage. We have a number of nice people on our cast. I would have liked to have gotten hugs. ;_;

Ah well, 'tis what I get for choosing to be dull and boring. :o

We went through all of Act I, with only a few touch-ups here and there. For the most part the actors had their lines down, but poor Anastasia, who's playing the main role, was getting so frustrated because she kept forgetting her lines at random intervals. =( You could tell that she was mad at herself, because she did know the lines.

We got through a scene or two in Act II, and then Mr. Ayres and Lisa gave the actors their comments and critiques and such. I was sitting next to Lisa while the actors were on stage, so many of my comments were already reflected on by her. I was more focused on marking off where people exit, where people entered, and where they should be.

Lisa pretty much focused on preparing the actors for the show in terms of their vocal acting and their lines, and I made sure I knew where they were supposed to be and what on-stage actions they were supposed to be doing during the play itself. It works rather well. ^_^'

Practice ran a bit late tonight, to 8:45. My younger sister was waiting inside the school for me, as she and my mom had been waiting outside for about fifteen minutes and were was wondering what was taking me so long. I talked briefly to my fencing coach and told him that I would not be able to be very active in fencing until the play ended next weekend. My coach is cool, though, and accepted that; which is one of the reasons he is awesome. =p

I have fencing practice this Thursday, though, which is awesome because there is no Drama practice! I can actually go to the second practice of the year! Yaaaaaay! From 9-1 in the morning/afternoon, though, I'll hopefully be there working on the set once again.

The play is next week(end), though! Soon the load will be lightened on my shoulders! I cannot wait. =D

I think I've just about done randombling*, so I'm off to finish Pre-Cal homework and sleep! Good night, everyone! See you later. ^_^

*Random + rambling = Randombling
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Monday, November 8, 2004

*filler*
Don't expect this to be the most inspired of posts. I've been run ragged today, and things aren't looking much better until Thursday. =p

First, Commentary Quite Contrary.

Arcadia: The bat is mine! >:o

Mimmi: Oh, so that's what the text choices were for? :o

Shinmaru: I know! I miss it so... ;-;

I stayed up late last night to finish the majority of my homework, and I managed to scrape together the rest of it today in Off and during lunch. It all got in on time, and done well. Yay Ben!

Now, time to do it again. v_v;;

I'm pretty much giving the cold shoulder to sleep right now. Since my report card came back, I've been determined to get my work done on time, with less measure given to sleep. I guess I'm choosing to do it consciously, but it feels like something else is acting for it. I would not usually abandon sleep lightly, and I've never really been one to worry about getting work done. >_<;;

I worked today, and I don't work again until Friday. Tomorrow and Wednesday I have Tech from 2-4 and 2-3:30, respectively. Then after that I have practice for the play from 6:30-8:30.

And to top it all off, the fencing season has officially started. We have our first practice tomorrow night. Which, incidentally, I can't attend, because I need to know what I'm doing during the play!

*shakes head in frustration and confusion*

*takes a deep breath and lets it out again*

I can handle all of this, just as soon as the play is over. Next Friday and Saturday are when the play is being performed. After that, it's just work and fencing to be bounced off of each other, with an occasional youth group meeting. I can handle that.

But with obligatory practices for Drama, and an actual role for me to play, I just cannot handle having fencing at the exact same time.

*takes a couple more deep breaths*

All will be well soon enough. I can make it through this. Hopefully I can get some leeway with coach. *sigh*

I'll just use the twenty pounds I lost as a bargaining chip. =p Yeah...that sounds like a good plan.

Ergh. I'm off to do homework and deprive myself of sleep. I'm so multi-talented.
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Sunday, November 7, 2004

   Rough stuff
*wields a lightsaber and an umbrella*

PH33R ME!

Solo's movie thing is so very inspiring. :o

The pictures are temporary, they'll be replaced by something a bit more refined as soon as I find the leisure to create something more refined. >->

If anybody wants to take it upon themselves to be creative and make something for me, I'll probably be very amiable to anything you create. =p
You could even include some sort of catchy phrase I've used. :o That would be cool.

But, who has the time to do something like that? ^-^;;

I guess we'll see. Or not. Or something.

Geez, I feel screwed up right now. :0



I've been playing Metroid Prime pretty steadily over the past three days and I've gotten pretty far along. And...um...I've lost my train of thought.

My mom just came into my room and was calmly berating me for not having my homework done yet, and not having started it. >_>

She's been telling me to do my homework for the past few hours, and I haven't started. *passes a hand over eyes* Why not?

It was me, you fool! ME! I DID IT! I'VE KEPT YOU AWAY FROM THE HOMEWORK ALL WEEKEND!

Oh. Well. That explains a lot.

My God, you are so thick! Didn't you realize that I'd been quiet for so long?

Subtlety never really was your thing. >____>'

*smacks you upside the head with a shovel*

How's that for subtle?! >:0

-__________-;; Ow.

*shakes head* Oy. I'm tired. Go do work, or something. >______>;;

Just as soon as this concussion wears off. x.x;;

Whatever. *poof*


Owwww......
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