Friday, June 4, 2004

1600 visits.. Cool.
Yesterday I went over to a friend's house, took fifteen minutes to shake up a can of Dr. Pepper, got out his pellet gun, and pulled the trigger. :D That was fun.

..After that, however, I took a short nap (two hours), and finished my I-Search project. All I really had to do was add some more content into the third segment, and do the bibliography.. Not too much, really, but I still spent an hour doing it.

I woke up twenty minutes before school started, again.. My excuse this time was that I was re-reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. We have, maybe, one more week before the school stops letting us take Accelerated Reader tests, and I just need maybe ten more points and one book to get an A and 100% of my goal. I've pretty much run out of sources for books, as I am too lazy to go to the public library, to find an epic novel to read, only to find out 1,000 pages later that it doesn't even have an AR test.

Actually, for some odd reason, I hardly remembered anything about the third Harry Potter book. I just remember the mailman bringing a box from Amazon.com to our door, and reading maybe the first chapter before going to a local outlet mall.. It's actually much better than I vaguely remember it being. Plenty more darkness in it, and Black is one of those characters that I enjoy. I ended up reading five chapters of it last night, simply because I couldn't find a good (i.e. the end of the book) place to stop. Heh, I bet I sound a tad strange talking about Harry Potter like this.

I also ended up seeing the movie version after school today with some friends. It was pretty good, I think, though the first half seemed rather rushed. Also, I thought that there was a bit too much comedy mixed in there. Either that, or the audience was so high that they would have laughed at anything. That's the odd thing about movie audiences. No matter how many times they see a gag in a commercial 1,000 times in a day, they still laugh at it in the theater. I only chuckled at one thing, and even then it was hardly there. Either I'm strange, or everyone else is.. It was good, regardless.

I have a piano recital tomorrow, and this is the first time I've felt any ounce of nervousness over one. I lost a bit of the memorization over the past week (We aren't allowed to have the music onstage with us), and my teacher went rather testy over it. I'll talk about it tomorrow.

Plus: And again, I didn't update for a day, and my popularity rating went up. I wonder if I could get in the top fifty if I went away for two weeks..

EDIT: Oh, yeah. I was wondering about applying for Fan Art Moderator. If anybody has any opinion about me doing such a thing, please say it now. I'm rather torn between "innocent bystander of the community" and "inactive on the boards yet working behind the scenes." Either way, I probably won't get selected, but I shouldn't say that. Not optimistic at all, eh? I should deny my initial feeling about the topic and go for the happy goal.

Also, I found a banner of mine that I never used, for some strange reason.. It was the initial attempt at the Apprehensive banner, and I'm pretty sure I like it more.

Oh, and if you're wondering why I haven't shown it yet, it's because 250Free and PhotoBucket aren't cooperating tonight. I'll fix it later, maybe.

I think I didn't like it at first because I was hoping for a more "realistic" water background. It still looks better than what James described as "a microscopic view of worms or cells or something."

And I'm done now.
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