Thanks to Chris for my new icon!!

And yes, the only reason I’m updating is to try out my new icon….nothing wrong with that, huh?

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The night is warm, the air is still
I ride out into the night
the breeze strikes the stillness, a breath.
I ride on, my heart lifts, I see a star.

The storm is coming, advancing
the wind drives ahead, not a breeze
no, no more. My head is up, I feel
the wind against my face. I ride on.

I feel raindrops, raindrops, 
dancing on my shoulder
I wish to dance, dance with them
and feel as free

On comes the storm, almighty, powerful
I see a palm tree, swaying in the wind
as a dancer, it touches my cheek, asks
me to join her in the beautiful night

The wind trumpets in my ears, pounds
in my head. I feel free. I ride on,
effortlessly, freely. I see the moon
unveil its face for an instant. It smiles.

I sense the storm, the impending thunder
I ride hard now, fiercely. The breeze,
once so soft, shakes me in its grip. I
look around me. Darkness everywhere, everywhere.

I ride on, into the storm, through the
corridor of gloom. I see nothing, but
I ride on. And then. Light. Light enfolds
me, embraces me. I am home. The storm,
behind me. I am in light, my spirit free.

A night bicycle ride is a beautiful thing…the wind, the soft rain…the clouds over the moon. It was truly wonderful.

Well, today was actually a pretty good day, in the scheme of things…no calc homework + minimal chem homework makes me very happy. If I could just wish away my english essay, all would be well in the world. *sigh*

I’m trying to think of exciting things that happened today…but can’t really come up with anything. In Euro history, we just took notes. It was boring. In English, we talked about Diary of Adam/Eve…thankfully, since I need all the help I can get for my essay. And I tried to be quiet today, since I’m afraid he thinks I’m asking him too many questions lately. Meh. Third and fourth periods. Two hours of calc. That’s all I have to say. I was dead tired in there, for some reason…could barely keep my eyes open. Of course, as soon as they called seniors for first lunch, I got untired all of a sudden. Chemistry…was chemistry. The rest of our test, which was actually pretty easy. I probably missed all the sig figs again, but hopefully I did ok on the rest. 6th and seventh periods were so boring they don’t merit talking about.

After school, I had a dentist appointment…and then….highlight of my day…bought Star Wars: A New Hope soundtrack!! Yes, that makes me very, very happy. It was one of only three left at Target(at least they had them there, eh?). For all you non-SW people, today was the day that the soundtracks, the DVD original trilogy, and Battlefront(game) came out. Big day. And…Great music…if you’ve never heard SW music, let me know and I’ll link you to some sites with SW mp3s. And that was by far the best of my day. Tonight, I’ve tried to write English essay. Nope, no luck. And then I’ve been trying to complete my UF application.

College applications…how I do hate thee. Why can’t they just be: “Fill in personal information(name, DOB, SS#) and send your transcript.” That would be so awesome. I don’t know how I can write my essays to sound reasonable…any of you that have completed them…tips please?

Ok, I’m hungry. Off to eat a fudgcicle.

No school tomorrow!!

That makes me so happy…now I just have to figure out what I’ll do with an extra day of freedom.

Dream told me to update…

So I did.

Update…

I’m so tired…

Another hurricane is coming to Florida.

This one might actually cause rain.

Ok, I’m too tired to write…

Four day weekends are goood…

Wow…the hurricane just totally missed us.

It’s amazing that it did…but it’s sobering to see all the damage that was done to where it did hit. That was going to be us. I just can’t believe how powerful it was and how much damage it did…Tampa would have been seriously messed up if it hit where the weatherpeople said it was going to hit…

Just…finished…summer work.

Wow, that was no fun.

BUT…school is tomorrow!!!

We Are Seniors!!

HUZZAH!!!

Wheee…updating!

Today was fun – spent all day in Gainesville! Me and my dad went to visit UF…and well, visited other places, too. First, we went on a little tour of the campus – oh, and Maggie was there, too – that was so weird(and of course, awesome!), seeing her there! So, we went on the tour around campus(my first time there). UF seems really awesome – good people, good place, etc. After the tour, me and my dad had lunch at Subway and met up with a friend of my dad’s to talk about UF and the good things/bad things(what??) about it.

And…hmm…can’t remember what happened next. Oh yes. Then went and talked to the Engineering Department adviser – informative, if nothing else. After that, we went to visit a church nearby, to see if it would be a good one to attend if I do indeed go to UF. It definitely was, as the pastor seemed to be a great guy and the church seemed to be strong in doctrine.

Anyways, after that, went home. Oh, and stopped at Steak&Shake on the way back for a shake. Scares me – I’ve been there twice in three days…I’m becoming Chris. *gulp*

And that sums up my day. UF seems to be a very strong possibility – they offer good scholarships, they have strong engineering programs, not to mention that all of my friends are going there.

Wow…long entry…whee, it’s all good.

Well, gotten several requests for my schedule, so here it is, in all it’s too-many-AP-classes glory:

And yes, it is in order(if I remembered it correctly, anyway):

-AP Euro
-AP English Lit
-BC Calc
-AP Chem
-Zoology(Honors)
-Earth and Space Science

I like how it gets easier near the end…:D

Anyway, today I went down to Gaither to find out why I had AP Psych when I hadn’t taken the prereqs…for some reason, the guidance counselors put it there to hold that place in my schedule(and the schedules of others), and it would be changed before school. I couldn’t really take it…at least, that’s according to MY guidance counselor. Mrs. Powell told Dream and Kim that they CAN take it though…so…I’m confused. But, I got an easy class(ESS) in its place anyway, so I’m happy.

Oh, another thing…found out I got Pardo for homeroom again!! Awesomeness.

I’m out.