So, no more school ’til Monday – this is a good thing. Tomorrow is the Renaissance Festival, and all the senior english classes are going. Even though I’ve never been before, I’ve heard it’s much fun. Anyway, that also means no school and no extra homework. Unless Nevismal finds me and gives me homework…like she did yesterday after math bowl. 

And speaking of math bowl, it went pretty well. The calc team was me, Dream, Craig and Steve. Dream scored the highest(placed 15th) and we got 4th place as a team. Woo! Wasn’t expecting that, but it was very cool. Me and Steve left early to get to chorus(Spectrum rehearsal), and at lunch the rest of the math team found me and gave me the trophy.

In chorus, we learned the medley(last song we needed to learn) yesterday and today. Some pretty fun songs, some more serious ones(for my group, we got 30 seconds of “Can You feel the Love tonight”). Today, my small group rehearsed for the first time with the band…it didn’t really go so well. First of all, the band was playing in the wrong key, so we had to adjust…we had no monitors, so couldn’t really hear ourselves, especially because we were singing so low. But, hopefully we’ll do better with further practice.

Mm..today in chemistry we had our Olive Garden lunch…was SO good. They had pasta with salad and LOTS of breadsticks. I was sure they would only give us a few, but I definitely ate at least 5. With a full plate of salad. And two plates of pasta. I was so full afterwards, it was hard to sing in chorus next period! At dinner tonight, I could only eat one burger…my dad wondered what was wrong.

This weekend will be very busy – on Saturday is a supposed “History Bowl” – only heard a few details, but Mrs. Granell asked me to be part of the team. It sounds fun – history’s always been my favorite subject, so that will be cool. And of course we have lots of calculus homework – a chapter 2 review packet plus a practice ap exam – all due monday. Oh, and we also have a test Monday. Not fun.

That’s all for now…until next time.

Just for the record, I love spring break.

Today was awesome – went boating with some friends from church. I didn’t know you got so WET in a boat. Afterwards we picnicked on the beach while trying to catch polluted fish – I don’t think I’m cut out to be a fisherman. I got annoyingly sunburnt but had a thoroughly good time.

We came back to their house, had dinner and watched Star Wars – Episode II…nothing better to finish off the day. Also had some great lightsaber duels(in which I broke my opponent’s lightsaber – Lost Hope, anyone?).

Haha, Michigan State beat Duke in the NCAA basketball tournament…awesomeness. Michigan State’s my team – hopefully they go all the way!

I really need an mp3 player…if only they weren’t 200 bucks…

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, one and all!

One more quarter of school. And then it’s off to college. With all the responsibility it comes with, I’m still excited about going. Just knowing that I have the freedom to make my own decisions and that with college comes the decisions that will determine the course of the rest of my life…

I’m looking forward to Spectrum – despite the limited time we’ve had to learn the songs and routines, I’m sure we’ll be ready by April. We were going over the guys’ routine today. Good song – “What is Love?”, and the dance isn’t too bad, either. Remember, Spectrum is April 7 & 8, 7:00(I think).

May the luck of the Irish be with you!

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Good day today. Had to get up early this morning for chorus festival. It was all the way past Riverview, so it took forever to get there. I had a great time, though. First time singing on a stage like that…uber-cool – I loved singing up there. And we did pretty good, too.

After I got home, took a nice, long nap. For some reason, singing really wipes you out! I was dead tired. Now I’m doing homework – not fun at all. Later, all!

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF – The Survey
Name:	James
Birthday:	May 18, 1987
Birthplace:	Maryland
Current Location:	Tampa
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Brown
Height:	5’11”
Right Handed or Left Handed:	Right
Your Heritage:	German/Italian/Irish(and a little French/Scotch/English)
The Shoes You Wore Today:	Dress loafers(chorus festival)
Your Weakness:	emotions
Your Fears:	Failure at life
Your Perfect Pizza:	Extra cheese/pepperoni/sausage/olives – yummy
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year:	graduate
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:	haha
Thoughts First Waking Up:	“uh…five more minutes”
Your Best Physical Feature:	Hair, I’ve been told
Your Bedtime:	10:30-12
Your Most Missed Memory:	Trip to California last summer
Pepsi or Coke:	Pepsi!
MacDonalds or Burger King:	McDonalds – fries are better
Single or Group Dates:	Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:	neither
Chocolate or Vanilla:	Chocolate!!
Cappuccino or Coffee:	neither
Do you Smoke:	Nope
Do you Swear:	Not usually
Do you Sing:	Yep
Do you Shower Daily:	Yep
Have you Been in Love:	True love? No
Do you want to go to College:	Yes
Do you want to get Married:	Yes
Do you belive in yourself:	Yep
Do you get Motion Sickness:	Sometimes
Do you think you are Attractive:	I wouldn’t know..
Are you a Health Freak:	Nope
Do you get along with your Parents:	Yeah
Do you like Thunderstorms:	They rock!
Do you play an Instrument:	Nope
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:	Nope
In the past month have you Smoked:	No
In the past month have you been on Drugs:	No
In the past month have you gone on a Date:	No
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:	Yeah
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos:	A whole box? No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi:	*shudders* No
In the past month have you been on Stage:	Yes
In the past month have you been Dumped:	No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping:	Nope
In the past month have you Stolen Anything:	Nope
Ever been Drunk:	Not yet(haha, no)
Ever been called a Tease:	Can’t recall
Ever been Beaten up:	Nope
Ever Shoplifted:	No
How do you want to Die:	At peace with God
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:	Someone accomplished
What country would you most like to Visit:	Ireland
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color:	Both are beautiful
Favourite Hair Color:	Again, either
Short or Long Hair:	Long
Height:	Shorter than me
Weight:	Average
Best Clothing Style:	Don’t really care
Number of Drugs I have taken:	None
Number of CDs I own:	A lot
Number of Piercings:	None
Number of Tattoos:	None
Number of things in my Past I Regret:	Minor things – a lot. Major things – none.
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Random update. Yeah, just had a great walk through the rain(it is COLD outside), and it was awesome. I wish it rained like this more often, in the cold. I got sorta inspired, so wrote a quick poem. Not much good(mostly because the ENTIRE time I was writing it, I had “Don’t Stop Me Now”(Queen) stuck in my head). Still, I enjoyed writing it. And I’m posting it because, well…if I knew I wasn’t going to post it, I wouldn’t put the time into writing/polishing it. Even if it isn’t polished(very much). Meh, enough. Here it is.

Solitary Rain
Rain needles piercing the air
the last roar of winter bites
at my heels.

Streetlight standing tall
orange light slowly fades
towards my face.

Running through the fog night
Shooting through the water works
Twisting ’round and ’round
Tearing through the universe.

Slowly, slowly, walk now
through the chill rain
it cannot hurt me
it is my power.

Just felt like updating today..not really sure why.

Been a good week so far…I love FCAT. Yeah, yeah, of course you really hate it when you’re in 9th and 10th grades, but getting those four hours off every morning for three days straight was awesome. On Wednesday I woke up early, made myself a nice breakfast and then took the dog for a walk. See, this is what I wish every day was like, but no. Today was back to normal. It made me sad, waking up to a dark sky. Good thing, though, it was my sister’s birthday…Happy Birthday, Katharyn!!! It was fun, our whole family got up and my dad made pancakes for her birthday. Yummy.

School was pretty much normal. In calc, 3/4 of the class got called down to the main office – it was a “top 3% meeting”. Woo. We get to be in the paper(Tribune) later this year and go to a banquet. All really cool. 

In chem, Mrs. Nevismal just asked us a bunch of trivia questions on life in the 1940’s. That was odd. But it was fun. During class, me and Chris took some of the leftover FCAT water bags(did you know they serve water in bags now? I didn’t) and threw them around all period. 

Nothing else much happened…except in chorus we’re preparing for festival. We have one more day to get ready. I think we’ll be ok, but I wish I was better at sightreading. Oh, well. Also in the chorus note(no pun intended), we really,really,really need to work on Spectrum. We have less than a month…and we’ve only worked on the opener. We have tons more to do, and mrs. connelly hasn’t even assigned groups and songs yet. It’ll all work out, I’m sure, but I’m nervous all the same.

And now, I’m just randomly typing away, trying not to do my history homework. Tonight the family will be celebrating my sister’s birthday – cake and a movie. Braveheart, most likely. She LOVES that movie.

And now, I’m off to get some homework done..bah. Only a few more months, and useless/timewasting homework will be a thing of the past. Hopefully.

Later, guys.