Friday, February 27, 2004

   Slacking? Me?
Well, well, well. I'm back again. I dislike how infrequently I've posted since I got back, but my Internet has been hectic, as has my schedule this week and blah blah blah blah blah.

This reminds me of a saying that my family uses every so often.

"Excuses are like buttholes; everybody's got them and most of them stink."

So I'm just going to stop trying to excuse myself. I don't like doing it, but I feel the need to do so. It's a weird feeling for me. :p

So, when was the last time I posted? *goes to check* Tuesday? Jeepers, I feel like a cheapskate; depriving you all of the details of my life.

I don't remember Wednesday much, except that Drop-In was incredibly boring and resulted in everyone going home early. I gave David some details for the upcoming ski trip, so hopefully he'll be able to attend. My Youth Group had a great time the last time we went.

It was a terrifying trip up to Vermont, though. The weather was absolutely horrendous. It was snowing like you wouldn't believe, with cars and trucks and stuff either pulled over because of it, or they had slid off of the road because of it.

We passed a freaking fire truck pulled over on the side of the road, and here we were driving through the state with two 15 passenger vans. My dad is certainly not what you would call a religious man, but as he was driving he had his Rosary beads clutched tightly in one hand. We all said prayers for a safe arrival.

The snow, however, made the skiing much more enjoyable, apparently. I guess it's good to have new snow for some reason. I don't know the difference, as I've only skied once (on that trip) and snowboarded once. I'm hardly an expert on good skiing conditions.

Speaking of skiing and snow and stuff, there's something I noticed about myself recently.

I like cold weather. Or cold in general. After returning to CT after about ten days in Florida, it felt refreshing to be back in the cold again. I liked the quasi-warm weather we had, but the bitter chill of home seemed better for some reason.

And again today, walking home from Sacred Heart, I felt again that quiver of delight when I felt the frigid air brush by my face. I think I'll start walking again soon, before all the cold goes away.

I've been trying hard to get my work done recently. I stayed up late last night to finish a History assignment that I had most of the week to do.

*glances back* That sounds rather contradictory, doesn't it?

Well, the fact is, I got it done. I lost sleep in the process, but I could have, and I think would have put it off had I not made a conscious decision to get it done.

Ben: 1
Forces opposing Ben's Willpower: Something discouragingly higher than 1.

Yesterday (or Wednesday, I don't remember) , I thought, was a great day, at least in the afternoon. I didn't have practice last night, so that left me extra time to do my homework. I put it off and decided to stay with my friends at the after-school daycare program. My family is closely involved with the school, daycare included, so I can pretty much hang out there whenever I wish to.

I spent from about 3:00 to around 5:00 playing with and talking to Christina, Victoria, and Tyler. I may have mentioned a Tyler before; this was not him. This Tyler is currently in sixth grade.

Anyways, after the designated amount of time was given for homework to be done, we went outside. (I could have gone out whenever I wanted, but decided instead to let them rummage through all of my school things =/ )

When we got outside we gathered a few other kids and played soccer. I had not played soccer for quite a while, but found that even out of condition I was more than a match for most of the kids. Somehow miraculously, I managed to position the ball to the side of the goal and, unchallenged, shoot it straight over the goal post. The goal post was a rock, by the way. I never did anything like that even when I did play soccer often.

After going inside and having snack, we played wall ball. I'd rather not have to try and explain the game to you, but let's just say that it's another one of those games that I used to play fairly often, and was quite good at.

What was particularly fun was the game the four of us had within the wall ball game. It was tag, put simply. We played tag while we played wall ball. It's hard to explain why, but it was enormously fun doing so.

: ) I love my friends.

Today was a pretty good day, too. I had mostly tests and quizzes, so other than them I didn't really have all that much work to do. I need to finish my ethical photograph collage my Tuesday, and my English paper is due March 8th. I haven't gotten any materials on it yet, and I'm partnered with one of the smarter people in the class. She's very nice, and I'd hate to let her down by not being prepared when the time comes to give our oral presentation.

I'm still excelling at Algebra II; I think I got a 100 on the test today. I almost had the right answer on the bonus, too. I put [19, 3] and the answer was just 19. It was a type of problem we hadn’t done for a while, so I'd forgotten to check and see if both of them went into the equation. My teacher, Mr. Pukstas, is a very crafty man when it comes to math problems.

I think/hope I did well on my French quiz today. I need to bring my grade up. A few random cases of apathy had been steadily gnawing at my grade, and now I need to get back into the swing of things.

Chemistry was the usual bore. We were doing percentages and mass and something. I finished before the rest of my class and read.

That reminds me, over the past couple of days, I read a book called The Losers, written by my favorite author, David Eddings. It's a morbid sort of story that makes you think about the mechanics of society, primarily welfare programs and those who need them. It's really a good read and I would encourage any- and everyone to read it.

Whew...I need to get to bed. It's 11-something and I have a fencing competition in the morning. I don't know whether or not I'm competing yet, but I am still supposed to be there early. I don't know whether I could fence, actually. I pulled a muscle or two in my leg this morning, and my left hip is bugging me. But my hip could be just from sitting here too long. :p

Last night and Wednesday night, I tried stringing together images to create a banner in Microsoft Paint. Unfortunately, whenever I saved the banner, it lost its clarity and became pixelly. I'd really like to get it together and looking clear so that I can put it up on OB. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Oh, I'm hungry. I haven't eaten since lunch, where the last thing I ate was a cookie. Every time I look into the fridge, though, the sight of what we have causes me to lose my appetite. Well, either I lose my appetite, or it's meat, and I can't eat meat on Fridays in Lent.

I think I'll go and look for about the 5th time and see if something has suddenly materialized in the fridge.

Au revoirs, mes amis...
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