Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Today = Good day
As said in the title, today was a good day. It flew by and I got stuff done, so that makes it a good day in my eyes.

It started pretty shakily. I got up late because I forgot to reset my alarm. I set it a little while earlier than I actually intend to get up, and then I'm supposed to set it to when I really intend on getting up. I forgot to set it the second time, is all.

I managed to make it to school on time, and I had eaten breakfast on the way up, in the form of two cinnamon pop tarts. What the arrangement has been for the past few school days is: my mom drives us to the hospital where she works, my sister drives herself and me to school from there. We get out of school. I get a ride home somehow, and my sister drives to whatever medical examination she has to go to. Then she picks up my mom from work when my mom is finished.

It's worked so far, although getting bus fare is a pain in the butt.

So, first period. History. Same old boring notes and lecture. More homework. :p

French, we continued discussing French History; nothing much going on.

Off: I spent it in the computer lab, trying to get the mouse to work on one of the computers. Incompetent Programming students....

Then I had Chemistry, which we spent balancing equations. Once I got the system down again, the work was easy, but time-consuming.

Theology, we watched a bit of a movie on the Dead Sea. Interesting fact: Swallowing just a glass of water from the Dead Sea could kill you. The salt concentration is so high that it could effectively dry out your stomach.

After Theology was lunch, which meant Yu-Gi-Oh. ^_^

I bought the school chicken today, which is...ergh...not worth the $2.25 it costs, but I could eat it fast, which was an objective at the time. Matt, my friend with the rare cards who had taken my place as #1, wanted to face me again. I guess I intrigued him or something.

Anyways, we dueled.

Remember when I said that Matt was going down? Do you? Well, guess what?

Three or four turns into the game, I won. He didn't draw any monsters, and my overpowering ones tore through him.

John challenged me, as I was once again on top. He was badmouthing Matt because of the embarrassing defeat. I beat him in fewer turns that I did Matt. I had them play rock-paper-scissors to determine who would challenge me again. John won, and so I beat him again. ^_^ Matt and I started another duel, but it was interrupted by the bell, with me in the lead. :D

So, I'm once again #1, having beaten Matt. I saw that as a huge accomplishment, and a bit of a fluke. Had he drawn better cards, he surely would have posed more of a threat.

After lunch I had Photography. Mrs. Kainz is going nuts trying to get all of the Seniors' pieces ready for the Senior Art Exhibit coming up soon. The rest of us sort of wasted away the period. I went and looked around the gallery, and then walked to the Admissions office to volunteer for being a Big Brother for next year's Freshmen. I know a few of them, and they wanted to have someone they knew helping them out. There may not be much of a chance that we're paired, but we'll just see.

Apparently, though, that was an issue with the Student Ministry office. The Admissions director assured me that I would be contacted, though.

Then I had Algebra II. We were given a few hard problems to solve, and we were allowed to work together. So my friend Tim and I went to the back of the room and solved the problems on our own while everyone else struggled vainly with them. We two are the best in the class. ^____^

After school I stayed briefly for my Student Council meeting, but I had to catch my bus and so I left early. We were sorting out the details of our dance on Saturday and what we had left to do. It promises to be fun. I'll explain more about it later, as I'm in a rush right now.

I went to Sacred Heart and put my brother and sister into Daycare until my dad came. Once I had gotten them watched over, I went and started a 1000 piece puzzle for one of the Middle School teachers with Victoria and Christina. It was a difficult one, with a single picture composed of many. And the pieces were about the size of an average thumb nail. :p

My dad came and drove us home. I watched a bit of TV, checked out my usual online stuff, and revived my RPG, W.H.A.T.E. I put in a new, central antagonist, aptly named Cione. According to the site I got it from, Cione means "someone who comes from nowhere". I pretty much just inserted him into the story, so I thought it would be an appropriate name.

I also did the History homework that was assigned today and started on some of the assignments that I had missed out on earlier in the quarter. Grades close on Friday, so hopefully I can get them done in time. If not, my grade may marginally suffer. :p

I had an odd dinner consisting of hot dogs and pizza. o.O Then I went to Confirmation class, which was refreshingly not like normal. They let us sit on the couches, for one, and two, half of the class was taken up practicing for the Stations of the Cross that we are doing on Friday. *notes* I need to make some soup for after that....

I lucked out and got the only non-speaking part; carrying the cross to each station. I think it was my teachers' disinclination towards the other interested people that got me the part, primarily. That and their sympathy for me. I'm arguably the best person in the class, as far as contribution and behavior is concerned.

It ran 20 minutes late, and my mom was very agitated by that. We've almost never gotten out on time, and she resents that fact. Also, we were not in the Upper Room, where our meetings are always held. We were in the Church, and none of the parents knew that. There were quite few parents upset about that.

So, all in all, it was a good day. I'm hoping tomorrow will be another one. I might have to give my English Oral Report tomorrow, which I'm not looking forward to. But at least it would be last period of the day, which makes it seem much better for some reason.

Incidentally, I have a lot of cool friends. On and offline. ^_^

There's an old Chinese saying:
"If there is no wind..."

"...the trees don't move."

EDIT: This post was referring to Monday, not Tuesday. :p
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