Sunday, February 8, 2004

   *Gets settled into chair*
Yesh. I have a lot to write about, and I probably won't end up getting it all. :p

I had a day off on Friday. The weather forecasters predicted bad driving conditions, and my school administration caved in. They have a lot on their minds at the moment, so it's not too difficult to see why they were so easily influenced.

I don't remember much, except that I slept late. That was very nice. I woke up to my alarm, and my sister came in to tell me that school was cancelled. I murmered something and went back to sleep. It wasn't really sleep; more of an extended and consciousness-lapsing rest. There were periods of about forty-five minutes to an hour between the times I looked to my clock.

I finally got up a little after twelve, which was sort of appropriate, as I went to bed near twelve on Thursday night. A nice catch-up on my sleep.

Soon to be destroyed. :p

My parents decided to go out on Friday night, and left me at home with my two younger siblings. I stayed up until they got home. Every time something like this happens, they tell me that I don't have to stay up after the younger two are asleep, but I just feel like I should. (Gah, a quirk of mine)

So I didn't get to bed until about 2:00AM on Saturday, when I had to be up at St. Bernard's before 6:30AM. The bus was leaving at 6:30.

I set my alarm for 5:30, just to be on the safe side. It takes me about 15 minutes to get to St. B's and I wanted to have plenty of time to get ready.

My alarm went off at 5:30, as it was supposed to. I rolled over, shut it off, and told myself I'd get up in a few minutes.

6:45AM Saturday, February 7, 2004

"Hey Ben, what time do you have to be at St. Bernard's by?" asked my mom.

"6:30." I replied.

"Well, it's quarter to seven right now. You'd better get up and get moving."

I groaned. "No mom, the bus left at 6:30. I was supposed to be there before then."

She just sort of stood there. Then she sighed. "Get your stuff, dad or I will drive you."

My dad wound up driving me to Guilford, which is about an hour or forty-five minutes away from my house. He wasn't too happy about it, but had adopted a "Shit happens" sort of attitude, so it wasn't all that bad. I ate a small box of Cocoa Puffs.

Our Novices did very well at the Novice tournament; all but two got further than I did last year. That is to say, they got past their first round of Direct Eliminations. :p

One of our Novice men took 6th place overall, which was a great accomplishment. We're all so very proud. Heh.

I had been assigned to a Novice. I was to carry around his extra weapons, an extra body cord, and to provide something to drink after each bout; to be his biatch lackey, pretty much.

I fulfilled my biatch lackey requirements dutifully up until the point where my Novice was eliminated. At first I was a little put out that he lost, but then my eyes brightened. I was free! I made sure that he realized that, too. I patted him on the shoulder, told him he did a good job, and then yelled "I'm free" and walked off.

AH! I'd forgot to mention! As soon as David (Boba Fett) was done fencing, we hung out. ^__^ He, unfortunately, did not make it to the Direct Eliminations round. But I'll let him give you the details. We didn't get to fence, since I had biatch lackey jobs to do, and his team was supposed to be leaving soon after I was released.

But we did get pictures! ^___^ They may not be the best ones, but by golly we got them! As soon as I get them developed and find a scanner I can....ehrm...."borrow" I'll have them up! (Note: "As soon as I" should be interpreted as "Not anytime soon" in most instances)

(Un)fortunately, one of my teammates took the camera while I was unable to pursue and used up the rest of the film. I'm almost afraid to see the shots...

Although I know one of them was of David's feet...

On the bus ride home (my dad had only dropped me off) I got to watch some of Freddy vs. Jason on my laptop. A friend of mine had brought it and insisted on watching it. We skipped most of the plot-ridden parts and watched the gory conflicts. Right before pulling into Wendy's, heh. I don't think any of those who watched the movie ate much.

I only had a few French fries that I stole, as I was going out to dinner with my family as soon as I got home. I called my dad using a borrowed cell phone, and he came and picked me up. We stopped home, got everyone else, and drove to the Mohegan Sun casino to eat dinner at their buffet.

Food. Eat. Yum.

We came home, and....yeah...it became today after a while.

I went to 11:00 Mass this morning, and left after Communion to pour juice for Coffee and Donuts, as this week was my week to do so.

After Mas let out, I had a couple of cups of tea and a donut or two. I skimmed the newspaper and read the comics. Then I watched as Christina and Victoria played a card game called "Spit" or "Speed".

I'm not very good at the game and I don't really want to try and explain it. After that, we all played Egyptian Rat Killer, another card game that I'm not incredibly good at. I was the first person out of the game, and Christina won in the end.

By that time, most of the people had gone, so I set about tidying up after them and cleaning all of the coffee instruments and tables.

Digipeep Results
Ben: 10
Digital Monster: 7
Leh: 5
Takuya: 1

RPG News:

Children of Sharess: I thoroughly enjoyed writing my last post. I ravaged Skedy's character, while still giving the post some credibility and I'm about to sell him to Dagger to be an undead servant; or whatever purpose she has for him.

OtakuBoards and the Holy Otakubot: I posted and yanked the narrator out of the sky. Let's see where that takes it.

The Silmarillion: I'm getting a little tired of CB Shin killing all of my orcs without taking any apparent casualties or having his character getting hurt. I think there's a word for that: skill GODMODDING!

I've begun to plot again, this time with Isen`Tar. CB Shin is the next to be taken down a notch.

When Humans are the Enemy: The breath of life has once again been breathed into the RPG and we've got a new character soon to be introduced. Boba Fett has agreed to take part with his character, Jedgar Nieta the weasel-clone. Hopefully an extra poster will help to keep it going.

That's all for now. I'm hungry, so be sure to look at my AIM Profile the next time I'm on. :)

Five more days until Disney; not counting today.
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