Monday, August 23, 2004

Okay, 1, 2, 3.....*collapse*
My mom came into my room this morning to wake me up and get me down to the gym. I biked for about twenty minutes, while she jogged on the treadmill. After that we headed home, and I was soon after picked up to babysit until 2:15.

I was babysitting for Mrs. St. Louis again; all three children. Much of the time was spent playing Gamecube, as they do not own the system and they absolutely love playing Super Smash Brothers Melee. There's only three controllers, though, so somebody has to sit out each turn.

I dominated the matches I was in, naturally. =P A couple of times we switched off all items but Pokeballs and turned them on high, so there were all sorts of crazy critters running all over the place. Heh, it was amusing.

They were pretty much able to get their own lunches, so I just munched on a turkey sandwich and made sure none of them choked. You see, I'm a good babysitter. :p

I played Yu-Gi-Oh with the eldest, Tyler, while the other two traded turns on one-player games. I built a new deck to face him, because one card in his deck absolutely shattered my Monster Destruction Deck's strategy. Without disassembling the Monster Destruction deck, I built a generic Beatdown deck and creamed him three times in a row. :D

One time, though, he nearly assembled the five letters of Destiny Board. If he had, he would have instantly won the duel. He had four of the five letters required, and the final one would be automatically placed on his field at the end of my turn.

He managed to get F-I-N-A before I wiped out his lifepoints. Had he gotten the L, he would have spelled "FINAL", and that would have marked the end for me. :p

Anyways, moving on. After I was done babysitting, I rushed home. St. Bernard's book day started at 3:00, and it was already 2:30. We still had to pick up Christina, and it took about 15 minutes to get to St. B's in non-existent traffic. But of course, there would be traffic.

Christina called me again yesterday, and asked for a ride up to school for Book Day. My parents consented, and so at about ten minutes until three o'clock, I was anxiously searching apartment doorways for a #16. I'd never actually been up to Christina's front door, as it is set back a bit from the parking spaces, and I'd never been there except to drop her off.

So, I walk past several younger children, all staring at me suspiciously. I was a bit dismayed when I saw a number on the corner of the building: 1095. -.-;;

I continued slowly walking onward, hoping that there would be some way of identifying which apartment Christina lived in. Fortunately for me, the last three or four of the apartments were actually numbered, and so I knew which one it was. I rang the bell, she answered, my dad drove us up to St. Bernard's.

We then spent the next two hours getting our books at Book Day. Well, actually, we only spent about twenty minutes actually trying to get our books. The other hour and forty minutes was spent waiting in line to check out. Now, the system our book store manager has set up is the most efficient system that they've ever had for a book day.

First off, you get a individualized packet of papers, which has your schedule, a paper that says which books are needed for each class, and a sheet or paper with about 14 even rectangular spaces on it. All of the books are split into sections: History, Languages, English, etc. They're all in one line, in almost an 'S' shape throughout the cafeteria. So, you pick what books you need in each section, and for every one you get a sticker to go on your rectangle sheet. That way, when you check out, they can be sure you've only got what they've given to you.

Despite the efficiency of the system, it didn't help with the lines. Most of our time together there was spent waiting in line. Fortunately for us, my dad had grabbed a small cart that was sitting aside for public usage. Nobody else was sensible enough to do so. =P So instead of having to lug our piles of books around the cafeteria for an hour or so, Christina and I just pushed them around on the cart.

In the meantime I chatted with Mrs. Lombardi and her son, Joey. Steve Lombardi was one of the group that normally went to movies, parties, etc. with Eric and me, and Joey was brought along several times as well. So, yeah. We knew each other. We let them share our cart. Idle conversation.

I saw tons of people I knew, which I suppose is only natural, considering they all go to my school. >.> A lot of them were different, though, in little ways. I've come to expect it after spending the entire summer away from most of them, but it's still neat. I wonder how I've changed in appearance. O.o

I may have realized it before, and I may not have, but I seem to know and talk to a lot of really pretty girls. And they actually, sort of, know me, and enough so that they actually come up and say "hi," or give me a hug. 0_ô

As my dad and I drove out of the parking lot (Christina had to stay at school for soccer practice), we can hear a girl yell out: "I love you Ben!" is a sort of off-key voice. Heh, it was one of Amanda's best friends, Jane. Jane and I have almost never spoken to each other (besides her occasional tipsy declarations of adoration), and yet, there it is. Calling out to me as I leave. v_V

LOL, not that I mind that many of these girls say that I'm a nice guy and such, but I'm just a bit nonplused. I've just never had so much attention (well, positive attention, anyways) from the opposite gender outside of the Internet, where no one has seen me. >_>

Times are quite obviously changing.

Anyways, I got home and remained there for about an hour and a half, before I went out to a special fencing presentation at the Thames River Fencing Club; the place I went last week(?) with Amanda and Megan. The club was having a special talk about new rules that were going into effect. I listened to that part, and then the old guy doing the lecture started going over several older rules and responsibilities that I already knew. So, I got up and talked to my coach for a short while. I got some good news from him, but I'll save that for another time. ~_^

My dad had arrived a half hour early, thinking he would just wait and read the paper until I was done. Well, I was through with the lecture, and there were hardly any people to fence; not to mention I was physically exhausted. I nearly fell asleep on the way to the club, and came even closer on the way home.

Playing Doom 3 on my dad's computer helped wake me up a bit. o.o;;

That is one scary game to be playing at 10-something at night. *shudder*

Anyways, like I said, I'm very tired. I have summer reading yet to do, and I have my first day of work at the library tomorrow. Ergh, and my contacts are giving me a headache somehow. >_>;

Good night, everyone.
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