Tuesday, May 11, 2004

   Busy, busy, busy....
Aye, I've done a lot of things in the past few days. I'll sum it up, as usual.

Saturday afternoon I went with the cast and crew of Godspell to Pagoda's, a nice little Chinese restaurant not too far from the school. Unfortunately, due to poor planning and The Majew backing out at the last minute, we did not have enough cars to transport the people we needed to.

Or did we?

The back of one of the cars was filled to the brim with lacrosse equipment and a couple of blankets. Being the trooper that I am, I assured the driver that I could manage to fit in. After adjusting a few things, I managed to seat myself on top of the lacrosse equipment by folding almost in half. I leaned to the left so that he could close the door behind me, and then pulled a blanket over myself so as to not be seen.

Can you picture that? A policeman driving down the road looks over to see a kid scrunched up in the backseat of a car without a seatbelt. >_> Very bad.

I remember commenting on what it seemed like in that position.

"I feel like an illegal immigrant."

We reached Pagoda's at about the same time, and then Eric carried out our premeditated plan. "Hey, we forgot Ben!" he exclaimed. He opened the window to the back door and then opened the door. I sort of rolled out of the back of the car, artfully falling to the ground. Everybody laughed and was very surprised. They all thought it was great. ^___^

So, we had lunch at Pagoda's, and then headed over to the mall for a little while before the play. Eric and Jeff bought two cheap lightsabers at the dollar store, and had a mock battle outside of it. That is, until somebody called the cops on us. >_>; We...um...ran away right about then.

So, we went to school and prepared for the play. Then, of course the play was performed and I was once again touched by the music and laughed at the antics. I am really going to get a CD of Godspell music. It's just great. I keep playing over the parts of the songs that I know. That, unfortunately, is not much.

After Godspell I went to the cast party. I spent the night and was driven to Sacred Heart the following day by my friend Steve. I put in several hours at the Mother's Day Breakfast and went to Mass. Then I helped out with foodstuffs for a Boy Scout's Order of the Eagle Ceremony. My dad was doing most oft he cooking, and he appreciated all the help he could get. He was paid significantly more than he expected (I expect that he volunteered for the service, as he often does) and so I got $20 for all of my help. Not too shabby. =/

Monday...yesterday....

I didn't get to stay at Sacred Heart for very long after school, since my dad wanted me to finish my homework before I could visit with my friends. That policy is, I think, still in effect.

By the time I had finished my work, though, it was past the end of daycare, which meant that there was no point in going back down there. I had my last Confirmation meeting last night, though. I am finally almost finished with these silly people. I only have one little contrived ceremony to go through on Sunday, and then I can forget about the experience forever. >_>

I am thankful for the class, though, since it gave me time to visit with Christina and Victoria. I was walking across the parking lot to wait for my ride when I heard my name called. I looked around and, not seeing anybody, kept going. Then I heard my name again, louder this time. I looked over and saw Christina and Victoria coming out from behind a car.

So, I talked with them for a little while until my dad came to pick me up. We drove around the school to leave, only to find that they had run through the school to wave goodbye from the other side. My dad drove back around to the front, where they asked him: "What are you doing?"

"Driving back around." he said. Then he started to drive again, but stopped after a few seconds. The two girls has already run inside, so my dad put the van in reverse and turned us around, heading back the other way. We drove away, and I could hear their good-natured cries of protest at being tricked.

Today was a productive day at school, and one that I could stand. !O_O! I had History first period. We spent our time going over the test we took yesterday, which many people did poorly on. The questions were examples of what we'd see on an AP test, which explains the abject confusion.

French followed history, as it usually does. I took the test on Cyrano de Bergerac and finished in only a few minutes. My haste was costly, I guess. I saw my paper on the way out, and there were a couple red marks on the page. Hopefully the essay I wrote last night will help.

During Off I wandered around the school looking for Eric. I found him in the cafeteria, of all places. He's generally wherever a computer is, but instead today he was busily writing his own play. He told me about it, and I told him about the new Decks I had built for Yu-Gi-Oh. He shook his head in disbelief at me. He thought my methods were simply unfair to whoever was my opponent. He didn't think they stood much chance at winning.

Chemistry was nice, since I discovered what exactly I was supposed to be doing. We're working with limiting reagents, and the concept was kind of lost on me the other day when I was zombified by lack of sleep.

In Theology we continued our discussion on Capital Punishment. We have a test on the chapter coming up soon, as well as a quote test on the Gospel of John coming up before the end of the quarter.

Ben's Yu-Gi-Oh Update!

I dueled John once today. We had time enough for several duels, but we were too closely matched in this one. It was his Yugi-themed deck versus my new "Draw the entire deck and kill them with one move" deck. My deck doesn't live up to its name unless I pull off a rather specific three card combo that I have yet to accomplish. It still works rather well, though.

We went back and forth for many, many turns. I was nearing the bottom of my deck at the end of the duel. I had maybe 6 cards left to John's 10. He was down to 200 LifePoints and I was at 2600. it had been 2600 to 1700, until I got a Direct Attack in that brought him down to 200. I thought I had the game won when I revived his Blue-Eyes White Dragon from the Graveyard, but he trapped it in a Spellbinding Circle. I then tried to attack with an extremely weak monster card for game, but he used Mirror Force and destroyed both of the monsters I had. The bell rang and our duel remained unfinished. We both looked at our next few cards and worked out what probably would have happened. Either way I would have won, it seems. But still, we counted it as a Draw.

End Yu-Gi-Oh Update.

In Photography our whole class went outside on a shoot to experiment with "pulling" the film. By using a high speed film on a lower speed setting, apparently we can accomplish something with the prints. It eventually got to the point where my teacher had to threaten to hand out zeros for the class period before people got serious about taking the pictures. A great deal of socializing was going on, and it frustrated her. I, fortunately, got a picture in before class ended. :p

Algebra II was last today. Again I was surprised about how much more I understood when I wasn't in a comatose state. I relearned what I was supposed to know, and by the end of the class I had Mr. Pukstas referring to me as "one of the better students."

I took the bus home after school today. My sister got a ride from another Senior in her class. I got to Sacred Heart and read some of the paper as I waited for school to let out. When the bell rang, I got to see Victoria briefly, and Christina even slighter than Victoria. It appeared to me that they both were leaving, and so I left to go home.

I went to get my haircut first, though. It was very warm out today, and having long hair doesn't help. I came home and have been toiling away at this hot laptop replying to RPGs and PMs like you wouldn't believe. I've had a busy afternoon of writing. And I've got a busy evening of homework to get to as well. ~_^

My fingers are tired, and I'm feeling warm and sticky. I think it's time I get off my butt and do something else for a little while. See you again soon. ^___^

There's an old Japanese saying,

"There is only half a pilgrimage without visiting the girls."
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