On West Egg

Ahh, Homecoming. Fun and suckage all rolled into one. Pictures are evil, if done by your parents, or your date's parents. However, if they're proffesional pictures, and you kinda break the backdrop setting up a group picture (Ok, not you, but a person in your group.) it's fun.

More tomorrow.

Yay! Today's Homecoming!

The dance is somewhat fun, at least, it isn't home, at best, it's very fun.

However, the before-dance isn't as fun, at least, it isn't when your parents force you to plan every detail when you're the kind of person who likes deciding a few things as they happen...

Oh well, repet on it afterwards.

Sorry, Shadow-chan, but there happens to be a rumor in the school that Merner's gay, so just to be safe, I clarified. Since most of the people who read this blog know who Merner is...

And I suppose I should tell you about my stint as a manic-depressive person...

Monday, the annual Dramam Club improv meeting hapenned. We play all sorts of games, and the really fun one is "Party Guests" from Who's Line. I was a guest, and I had to play a manic-depressive person. It was fun. It took the person being the host forever, despite the fact that at one point, I said "I'm happy! I'm sad..."

Today, auditioned for the fall play. My monologue went well. I kinda screwed up, but it was just sentence order, and I was able to fix it by doing a few things in a different order than written, but it turned out fine. I read well, but I ended up speaking in some accent I've never heard before, without me thinking about it. I also seemed to have slightly different voices for each character without trying.

I've also learned to project since the Christmas play last year.

I'm pretty much garunteed a part, as not as many guys have auiditioned as there are male parts, so Hancy's probably going to have to force some guys to act. Which means I'm also likely to get a good part, and one that I wanted, especially because no senior or junior guys have auditioned yet, thereby giving priority to sophomores, like me. ^_^

I'll have a quote at some point, I'm still working on it...

And Shadow-shan, how can you have that image if you don't know what either of us look like?

Percussion feature + wet grass = not good.

Pivots on wet grass are bad enough, but when you gofrom <-- to --> and back to <-- with each change 8 (very quick) counts apart, it's not fun. But the song's cool, and I should be fine on not wet grass, so um... yeah. Of course, the cold wasn't fun. I was expecting to be inside today because it was raining this morning, so I was in shorts and a t-shirt. Naturally, it was freezing. My arms went numb. Not just my hands, my arms. So when I het inside, I get a burning feeling all the way up to my elbows. Not fun at all. Then, when that goes away, my arms are cold again. o_O But Jill was at lunch, and I never see her anymore, so that was fun. That, and trying to figure out exactly what the egg rolls were. They had some sort of grayish squishy stuff inside, and the fried rice was bland with chinks of scrambled egg-esque. That's why I got the mini corn dogs and gave them to Zach.

And if you haven't figured it out yet, Shadow-chan's Quotes of the Day tend to be on the serious side, and mine are more humorous. Later, I'll tell you about my stint as a manic-depressive person last night.

Quote of the Day "Have you heard about the time Merner ate my sausage?" - Me. Referring to school food! Echhi! Just because we act like Merner is gay doesn't mean he is!

Well, now that I've gotten over my shock, I've become quite cynical about the media's coverage of this. (Not the event itself, mind you, I could never be that disrespectful to the people who died or lost a loved one yesterday.)

"Hm. This is a big tragedy, and it's affected millions. Let's give it a stupid name!" "America Under Attack." Bleah. That better not be what this day is known as in the future.

"The nation is being attacked by terrorists who obviously have some vendetta against the nation. Lets repeatedly disclose the location of the president!"

"Lets keep showing the plane hitting the second tower, and occasionally show a different angle! And maybe show one of the towers collapsing every ten minutes, despite the fact that many more likely died in the collapses than the crash! And despite the fact that we keep talking about the collapse! And despite the fact that the Pentagon was hit, too! Despite the fact that there's an active rescue on the street! Despite the fact that we have other footage! Despite the fact that maybe, we could show the person talking! Etc..."

Bleah. I lost whatever shred of respect I had for the U.S. media before. And believe me, it wasn't much.

And don't get me started on the Americans who are beating the crap out of anybody who looks remotely like an Arab. Or the celebrating Arabs and Palestinians. That's just wrong on so many levels...

On a lighter note, I have a date to Homecoming! Yes, little 'ol unnatractive, boring, slightly annoying me! And she asked me! Actually, she (Jillian) sent Mallory to ask me for her. And on top of that, Mallory said "She likes you." I'm unsure wether she means likes me likes me, or just likes me, freind-like. Either way it's good. The fact that I was a bit out of it for the next five minutes isn't as good, but... yeah... Oh. This happened Thursday at lunch.

And my older brother's a little upset/annoyed that I got a date to Homecoming before him, and I didn't have to ask anybody. Hehehe!

GAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!! STUPID COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm really, really sorry that I haven't updated in over a week, but my computer screwed up sometime Thursday after I went to band practice, and was only fixed today. I'll get back on track with the band camp updates, and with what happened during the past week, but I, for some reason, cannot think of anything good to write right now. Besides that Sunday was my birthday, and I now own the second Escaflowne VHS, and got enough birthday money (As of now, I may get more; mail is slow. ~_^) to get the third. Happy!!

Oh, and I'm fifteen now.

And I got a date to homecoming. That situation will take time to explain, and as I said, I can't think well right now. So... bye for now, all three of my readers. ~_^

**Ahem**

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHY! WHY IS SCHOOL SO HORRIBLE THIS YEAR! IT WAS SO FUN LAST YEAR!

Thank you for suffering through that. Now, period by period, I shall tell you haw absolutely horrible school is this year, starting with the hour-long homeroon at the beginning of the day that screwed up the schedule.

Homeroom: Well, besides the fact that it was an hour long, we were given agendas that are to be used as hall passes. The agendas are the same ones we were given in middle school, only smaller, and with pages in back where teachers sign, excusing you from the room. Can anybody say "bad idea?"

First Period (Hon. English 2): Great. I get to start the day with Hancy. Wheeee.... I'm fortunate enough to have gotten on her good side, having worked on the fall play, having been in Drama Club, and having been in the Christmas play. However, her class has a huge workload, and I'm still going to be there when she yells at people that aren't on her good side...

Second Period (Keyboarding): One of two good classes. Mrs. Smith is cool, and the class shouldn't bee all that hard, considering I type OK, and the basis of the way I type is the correct method...

Third Period (Hon. Geometry): I am going to hate this class, especially after having Moyer last year. I've also lost the only other person who understands me when I try to explain something to another period of the class. Also, I'm not as good at geometry as I am at algebra. On top of that, there's Mrs. Cummings non-Mrs. Moyer-ness, and the room itself. There's no natural light, and it's one of the dimmest rooms in the school.

Fourth Period (U.S. History): The class and teacher are fine, but my classmates... I'm probably going to be the only one who really knows what they're talking about in there, besides Obie. I've got a class full of talkative not-so-intelligent girls, and dumb wise-ass guys. Wheeeeee.....

Fifth Period (Band): It's going to be fine, but it's not last year at all... I'm by a hyperactive guy who couldn't stay at attention or quiet if his life depended on it, and two people away from me is Merner, who was not at band camp, and consequently, knows absolutely nothing about marching or the forms.

Lunch (5C): Holy crap! There's more people in one of the two lines now than there were in all of the cafeteria last year! I didn't even get to open my Doritos! (Okay, I got to eat 1 chip, but it's pretty damn close to not being able to open them...) Last year, I had too much time left after eating, and would usually mix together whatever non-solid leftovers I had. (Milk, ketchup, etc...)

Sixth Period (Latin 2): The other good period. Mr P. is cool, we don't do much work, I undertand the language, it's all good...

Seventh period (Hon. Chem. 1): It's Madame Cleo! Oh wait, that's just Mrs. Odafe... We got free dividers, pens, and higlighters from her, but that's not going to help us understand her. She sounds like Madame Cleo, and looks a little like her too, for that matter. Well, she talks faster, so it's mich easier to understand Mme. Cleo... I've also heard from former students of her's that she isn't the best teacher, as far as getting you to learn things goes... Oh, and Heather, the "lab" count was 12, but I might have missed 2, as there were a couple occasions when I wasn't listening carefully, and she could've said it without it being out of context.

This year is really going to suck, especially compared to last year. Lucky Shadow-chan doesn't even go back to school until sometime next month...

Quote of the Day:
"I love Taiki because somebody has to!" - Shadow-chan. And maybe Tsukai

Non Band Camp Update!

I go back to school on Wednesday! I'm excited but not. School is a great way to stop doing nothing, like I do during the summer, but it also means putting up with the idiots at school. For some reason they assume I want to be popular. I'm happy being my semi-anti social (read: against socializing with idiots [read: half the school]) self. I don't want to be vapid and shallow. I'd rather ramble on about things I care about and be ignored than talk about "hot women" (Read: whores the entertainmen industry passes off as singers/actresses/anything they're not), sex, and sports and be listened to.

Yes, I am a guy.

No, I am not gay.

Stop looking at me like that!
**Hides from all the internet people not believing me**

The Almighty. Pickle: Now look what you did to- Ow! Hey! Stop eating me! OW! Bas-"

**Returns**

You just ate the most important pickle in the world! Don't be surprised when the pickles attack you....

I'm sorry, I really should have less sugar when I'm going to be updating my blog.

Wow. A ton of people are helping me with the layout of my blog, and one doesn't even know who I am. Shadow-chan is getting help from Tsukai-chan, and we decided to base the layout on Sailor Chi and Sailor Phi. So... Shadow-chan has a freind drawing a picture of the two right now, and apparently Phi's face was too babyish for some time. It may still be now. When I get the new layout, I'm hoping to get some links and stuff in the sidebar. I may have two, one with Phi and one with Chi. We're still working on it. I'd do the Happy Dance, but I'm overusing it. ~_^