Day in Review

Despite the fact that today was a late start (see previous post) I still accomplished some things at school today. Here's a handy list sorted by period:

1st (English) - Learned what the teachers were doing during the three hours.

2nd (Ceramics) - Smoothed out the pot I was working on.

3rd (Physics) - Just like a normal day, due to the fact the period was 40 minutes long. We even got homework!

4th (History) - Watched a movie about the Brooklyn Bridge.

5th (Math) - Vented rage by kicking a desk because of numerous unsuccessful guesses whilst playing heads-up 7-up.

6th (Japanese) - Watched "Shall We Dance?"

As you can see, even late start days can be very productive.

Late Start

For some reason my school district feels like giving the students tons of days off or incomplete weeks. It's very hard to find a string of consecutive weeks that are not ruined by half-days or days off. Case and point: This Monday was a day off, but we also have a 3-hour late start today. I need to go to school in a few minutes, complete with 25-minute periods.

See ya later.

Presidents' Weekend

Good ol' President's Day. Yet another shining example of a holiday that was shoved up against a weekend just so people could have more consecutive days off.

Case and point: My school district decided to make this last Friday a no school day, just so all those ski bums could use this resulting 4-day weekend to beat the world record for "Most Consecutive Hours Spent Skiing". I will admit to being part of the problem. On Saturday all the youth in our ward went up to Mt. Baker (3 hours away) just so they could sled on top of 10 solid feet of snow for a couple hours.

As for President's Day, the only celebratory thing I've done today was eat some nice pie. Cherry pie.

Filler

I'm just posting this entry to see if anybody looks at this blog.

Also, I was considering posting a video for Valentine's Day, but wasn't sure if I should post it.

So, instead, here's a video of a train wreck.

Equilibrium

I had an awesome day at school today. There was a pep assembly, and it totally pepped me up. It was certainly awesome beyond all reason. In addition to being the noisiest thing in the world, there was a sasquatch that did slam dunks. I mean, is it possible for there to be anything more awesome?

Short answer: No (ignoring absurdly awesome boss fights against giant robots (1) (2) (7), of course.).

On the flip side, my younger brother, who is being homeschooled, is returning from a multiple day field trip in some far away state known as "Oregon." Naturally, this does not bode well for my sleep cycle.

Subpar Tuesday

Apparently 24 states decided to have presidential primaries or caucuses today for some reason. I just think that it's part of some Free Mason conspiracy to make you watch more TV, but that's just me. Supposedly it's supposed to be a big event, but I'm not paying much attention to it. I think I just check check on this site in the morning. Then again, I won't be old enough to vote in November, so it won't really effect any decisions I make this year.

Personally, I didn't do anything special today. School was just another day of school. At mutual we just planned for activities that we'll be doing the next few weeks, such as sledding at Mt. Baker or bludgeoning each other to death with PVC pipes and pads. Nothing really special.

Super Bowl

No, I'm not talking about the match of American Rugby that was played yesterday. I'm talking about a real man's sport, that requires determination, intelligence, team spirit, and dance moves.* I'm talking the knowledge bowl.

Today's meet was the semi-finals, and our team was the only one from our school that managed to get their. The actual meet was at Blaine High School, which is in Blaine, Washington or Blaine, British Columbia, depending on who you ask. The school is pretty nice, but I think whoever decided the mascot should be the "borderites" should be shot.

Anyways, we arrived at the school around 9 o'clock, and had to wait a while for the written round. It was long enough for me to play a game of dots and boxes on an 8 by 8 grid and win. Our team got 38 points on the written round. That got us into room 2 (and 5th place) for the first oral round, where we scored of 12 points, which got us into room 2 (and 6th place) for the second oral round, where we scored of 12 points, which got us into room 2 (and 4th place) for the third oral round, where we scored of 12 points.

In the end we managed to snag 74 points and end up in 3rd place, which good enough for us to go to state next month. Go team!

*Yes, that's me.