Wheee. Homecoming has come and gone, and I'm not sure what to make of it.

Jillian came over to my house about 5, and I cooked dinner. Nothing fancy, just chicken fingers, pasta, and corn off the cob. We ate. She went home, and we got into our nice clothes.

How I hate ties...

I go to her house, and parents take pictures. And take pictures. And take pictures. Then we move to a different spot, and parents take pictures. And take pictures. Etc...

We finally go to the dance, and well, neither me nor my date are really dancers. 3 hours of standing around and talking to freinds we see every day. Fun...

Well, it was fun when I showed everyone my dances for people who cant dance. ^_^

And when we got our picture taken by the professionals who set up a camera in the gym. We got a group picture, with 12 of us. As we were being puit in place by the photographer, Bob got off-balance, and ran into Toni, who fell onto the backdrop, a cardboard semicircle base, with cardboard columns connection to a cardboard semicircle top. The top starts falling, but the base was staying in place. The photographer rushed in, and got the top back up.

Well, the outer coluims end up like this: / \ instead of l l. The photographer fixes one (l \) and tries to fix the other, but got this: / l.

So, the backdrop was not all that straight in our picture.

Then, after the picture is taken, we move away, and there's a huge dent in the front of the base, and a hole on the top of it, where Toni fell on it. I'm sure the photographer was glad we were the last picture.

Schu may not be so happy that the thing was broken though. Seeing as how she helped make it.

Which is why I'm glad she doesn't know who broke it.

The dance ended not long after that, and we all went home.

The end.

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.

I'm hungry.

Pointless post count: 3

Oy.

The play this year has bleak prospects.

If you count the baseball players at the wedding as one part, there are 13 male parts in this play.

7 guys auditioned.

I suppose I'll have to learn the art of the quick change, because although Hancy's recruiting guys withput auditions, there just aren't enough guys in drama club for her to get guys she knows have at least a minimal interest in acting. Wooo.

Today at Academic Challenge practice, there was a question in the weekly question thing about blogs. I got it right and I was the only one who knew it. ^_^ <-- **Happy**

EDIT: 'rugthm'? I typed 'rughtm' and nobody said anything?

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!

Okay, now I'm getting scared...

Today in Chemistry it happened yet again. Yep. Deja vu. It's kinda cool in one way, but freaky every other way you can think about it.

If only it were more siginificant things I dreamed ahead of time...

Yes, I don't just get the feeling I've done/seen what ever I'm doing/seeing at the time before, I know without a doubt that I dreamed it would happen, complete with said knowledge of dream and feeling of freakiness. The thing is, the dreams always come about the same length of time beforehand, I think, somewhere around a month beforehand. I don't remember the dreams when I wake up, but as soon as I get the feeling of deja vu, poof, I remember the dream. Mighty short dreams, those are, but dreams are such a mystery that I shouldn't really be surprised.

Of course, how I can dream someone else's actions beforehand is beyond me. About all I do in the dreams/lived-out-dreams is listen/watch another person and realize "Whoa, deja vu." So it's not like the dreams subconciously influence me to do what I did in them or anything, because I'm not the one doing anything.

How fun...

Tryouts fo the fall play are Wed. and Thurs. I go Wed. The play is "Our Town." I should probably start looking for a monologue...

Wow. Deja vu twice in one week. That's odd for me. Deja vu isn't, I've been getting it frequently since I was in 1st grade, probaly earlier, but not twice in one week, to my recollection.

Does anyone else's period of deja vu always extend through the period in which they are realizing that it's deja vu? Always happens to me.

Anyway, today at church, I went to my dad's church instead of my mom's, which I usually go to, due to temporary deafness on the part of my parents, every time this week my brother told them he was working today. Anyway, partway through the service, this woman comes out, and does this really funny sketch about how the bible is so useful in her life. I got deja vu at the part where she's saying "And this one day, I was short a few bucks when the pizza boy arrived, so I turn to 'Numbers' and there's a crisp 5 dollar bill there, enough for the pizza, and a tip!"

The whole thing was funnier than anything I would expect during church. She introduced the thing by doing 'fall cleaning' and dusting the table the bible was on, and towards the end she's like "It helps me up when I'm feeling low." and sees something she needs to dust that she can't reach, puts the bible on the floor, stands on it, and is able to reach what she has to dust. The whole thing was better than 90% of what's been on SNL lately. Of course, that's not saying much...

Quote of the Day:
"I see no stray puppy." - Hunter, of As If!

It's a Saturyday, so until band competitions start, nothing interesting has happened.

I do have a Quote of the Day, though.

Quote of the Day:

"TOM: How long before we get sucked into this thing?
SARA: A long time: Roughly 178 years, 17 days, 10 hours, and 12 minutes."
TOM: Roughly, huh?
SARA: Roughly."

- From Toonami Lockdown.

Finally, I'm home!

Football games can be fun, but the band raincoats garuntee it won't be. When you put one on, you lose all mobility of your arms. I'm very happy that the main reason we took them was to cover the wet seats, meaning we could take them off.

Changing out of your uniform on a crowded bus isn't fun, either...

Sorry, but no quote from me today, I've done enough work for today...

Have you ever had a day in class where, despite the fact that you know what you're doing, you just can't do it? That happened to me today in keyboarding, and boy was it fun!

If you didn't pick up the sarcasm in that statement, one would wonder how you could read it in the first place...

Oh, and Shadow-chan is going to send me Pocky!!! I'm very happy about that, I've never had any before...

I have the perfect quote of the day!!!

Quote of the Day:

"I can't rule the world with just one ball!!!" - Garlic, Sr.

Ecchi! He meant one dragonball!!!

Haha! Got it!

Quote of the day:

"He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead." - Anon.

There. Shadow-chan's in the blog title, so she can't use that as an excuse to not post! Ha!

Quote of the Day:

Later. I must outdo Shadow-chan! *Evil grin*

**Sniff**

Shadow-chan had a better Quote of the Day...

:'(

I'll just have to outdo her tomorrow! :D

MUHUHAHAHAHAHAHA **Hack** **Cough**

Anyone have a glass of water?

Pointless post count: 2

I feel guilty...

I get to mark time during the percussion feature. To some of you that doesn't sound like much, but the percussion feature, the song where all non-percusison marchers get to make the fastest, biggest, in general hardest, moves of the show, is not a drill I feel I should mark time in. It doesn't seem fair, as some people are moving a lot during that same move, and I'm just marching in place.

Of course, that's nothing compared to the instrument sanps up and down in the middle of the drill. There's a point where every 4 counts, everyone snaps their instument up if it was down, and vice versa. I play sax, so I muve my instrument about this much: ____________ Everybody else (excluding clarinets) goes from
_ to l(Except the instument goes down, not up. I just don't know if I can make "underscore" above where the characters are in a line of text, to make the illustration better). I feel stupid during that.

Not like it takes much to make me feel stupid, but that's something else altogether...

Quote of the Day:

"It seems the quote machine is broken..." Me.

I'm now happy again!

Winsdor CBC shows Poirot Sundays at 8PM EST, so I can see it! Yay!

God, I sound manic depressive.... I swear I'm not, it's just that I have so little going on, my live's happiness quotient has been revolving around Poirot. ^_^ <--- Me, the person with no life at the time!

Did you know the "One, Two Buckle My Shoe" rhyme goes to twenty? It's somehow important in this one, and the two girls outside playing hopscotch and singing the rhyme outside the dentists office all the time, as though they have nothing else to do (Hey! I'm not the only one with no life!), sing it to twenty. The funny thing is, it's not them singing, it's obviously more than two voices, and it's the same voices who sang "Hickory Dickory" repeatedly whenever somebody was murdered in the 2-hour Poirot thing I told you about yesterday.

Oh well. I suppose I should be paying more attention to Poirot, now that I can see it...

I'm upset now, I find out when Poirot is, get to watch about 5 minutes of it, and get sent to bed by parents who don't understand the phrase "I don't get tired until after midnight, even if you send me to bed at 10 (for school nights) or 11 (Weekends). Being in my bed does not make me any more tired than doing things. In fact, if I did things during the time I'm just liying in bed thinking, I'd probably get to sleep earlier!" But hey, they're parents, logic isn't a skill of thiers.

So I'm still deprived of Poirot. :'(

Quote of the Day:

"Star Gentle Uterus!" - Sailor Star Maker, trying to strike fear into the hearts of enemies. Oddly, in the SM universe, it works. 'Course, maybe that's because somehow a gentle uterus inflics a ton of pain there, somehow...

I'm very happy right now! Ever since A7E moved Poirot from Friday nights at 10(? I forget already...), I've been trying to figure out when it's on. I just did, it's on in a few minutes, and this afternoon, there was a two-hour Poirot thing, I missed the very beginning, or I'd give you the title. I'm very happy about this!

Oh, and I've forgotten the Quote of the Day for a while now, so you get two:

"When I grow up, I'm going to Bovine University!" - Ralph Wiggum

"SNIFF- a poem
Sniff, little bug.
See that flower?
Sniff it, bug.
Sniff it.

Sniff, little bug.
It smells real nice.
Sniff it, little buggie wuggie.
Sniff it good.

Sniff, hodgepodge dodge Bug.
Sniff it till your sensors fickle out.
Sniff it till your nose* comes off.
Sniff it real well and hard.

Sniff, fucking little bug.
Sniff it now!!!!
I'm not lying, little bug.
Sniff my fucking finger."

- A poem by Shannon. It's... interesting.

Netscape sucks. It screwed up Cookie Day!'s layout, as well as Blogspot's. Thank God I don't use it at home...

I'm doing OK in keyboarding. According to the program, I type anywhere from 35-52 WPM. Big range, but oh well. I suppose the words make a difference. ^_^

Hoo boy... The box I type this in to update my blog doesn't scroll down. I cannot currently see what I am typing. Wheeeee....

Whee! I just dicovered that I may be able to give you people updates if I quit work in Keyboarding a little early! Wheeee!!

^_^

Edit: I hope it's the computer makng my blog page look big and have a horizontal scrool bar, and not Netscape. I really do, because I don't like horizontal scroll baers and wouldn't wish them on anybody unless absolutely neccisary.

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!

O_O I'm scared...

I can't really write too much at the moment, because more than half of what I did in school was talk about, or watch the terrorist situation, so I'll copy what I wrote at AE.

"I understand that this is somewhat of a tragedy. OK, big tragedy, and somewhat of a national safety issue, but I think the high school I go to school overreacted.

All after school activities: canceled
All sporting events: canceled
School locked and empty by 3:00
Everybody on the bus, or in a car, no walking home

I've never seen the halls and parking lot empty so fast.

It was scary watching it in class, we didn't do anything else in U.S. History. It's scary seeing a big landmark just... go. Both the WTO's tower fell in less than an hour, and the pentagon was hit. I've heard that a plane with a bomb was forced to land in a nearby town, and I don't know where it was flying, but that's kinda scary to hear.

On the upside, I've never heard so many people in the school talking about current events or politics. That was nice. ~_^

But still.. it's pretty O_O. I understand terrorist attacks are very common things, but they seem to rarely hit the U.S., especially not in such a large scale thing. That's really really scary."

If it kinda sounds like I was defending a point, I sorta was, somebody said that it's not as big a deal as CNN and the like are making it. I agree, but not to the extent of the person who wrote that.

I think I'll go back into shock now...

O_O

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. ~_^