The thursday that by all means should have been a Friday.

Okay, my day. Start to Finish. I had a slow start, and despite this fact I decided to be nice and wait on my brother (as opposed to Monday when I left barely after he'd woken up) which was a big mistake because that meant that I aws obligated not only to wait for him but to pick up Jenn as well. I rushed David and therefore got out quickly enough not to be stuck behind a school bus. Instead I ended up behind some freak who made school buses look swift. Anyways, I got to school and found that my mind was again undoing itself for the BC Calc test. Anyways, I did very well on the calculator part (which says something considering I was using the schools Ghetto TI-82) but left 3 blank on the non-calc multiple choice and definately did not get all the rest correct. I eventually managed to figure out all the free-responses, but getting through the ends of #'s two and three didn't happen until after I had put my calculator away. The test wasn't made too much easier by my memory, which came to me at about the start of the free response when I thought to myself "Oh crap, I have a concert today" and then "Oh crap, I left my work clothes at home." But, anyways, I prevailed and hopefully got a 5.

Mao in 6th was pretty fantastic. Then I bailed out on 7th, with Chang's permission, (Note: I owe Cal one) and checked out the AP Art presentation and then played some more Mao and got Jiaz and my research paper back 192/200...not bad. Lakly said to look over her comments carefully, but her 3 criticisms were a comma splice, a lacking transition, and a usage of "it is" and the rest was "good quote" and smiley faces.

Work was, interesting. Intensive packing jobs suck. Today's helpful UPS Store note: Weekends are not shipping days. If you want to get something there by Mother's Day and it's the Thursday before, your only option is a Next Day Air shipment, which is very costly. Ron actually used the phrase "Shits and giggles" and then he said the exact same sentence but used "bullshitting around" instead. I survived though, got home, changed, and then got back to school for Jazz Band and Regular Band concert. It went rather well, although of the 9 songs I have (out of 20 total the whole year) in the Jazz Band's repetoire, we only played 6 songs and only 2 were mine :(. Anyways, Kyle showed up and threw me a curve ball. He wanted me to drive him down to his sister's housing near Tech to pickup his mother's car. Naturally I refused, since I'm tired, hungry, and not a good navigator so I hate driving too far. I later made the mistake of telling my mother about this request, who then offered her services, which I then relayed to Kyle, who accepted, and then of course I got dragged along: and therefore away from my late-night AIM convos (including one I'd just begun with Sean, NYLC asian friend who's going to UCLA and lives in CA, which really irks me) and Infoceptor (which we'll get to later) and lost the ~1h10 (I left close to 10:30, got back at 11:40) that I would have otherwise had. And of course David had been using the cpu for god knows what, but of course that means that my away messages were lost (guess I'll have to talk to Sean again later) and now Winamp was having critical errors whenever I started it up, forcing a restart (which also sucks due to the amount of crap on my cpu). Jiaz, I'd appreciate if you could tell me what Episode of Trigun I missed so I can d/l it.

Anyways. I've decided I don't like immature people. Especially pathological liars on forums. And definately those who can't even notice simple facts. @ Infoc they have a Art forum story they are working on, so naturally I decided to help edit. I asked the head honcho and he said sure, but go ahead and formally apply at the appropriate Thread. So I applied, waited a week and then went ahead and posted my edits. Immediately the lead editor responded, telling me 1) that he was impressed at the things I caught that he didn't. 2) That about 75% of it was actual error the others just stylistic aspects that clashed with me. and 3) that he was glad for any help. About a week later than that Elfdude posts to tell me how to properly use the quote function (Which makes a 1 line quote into 5 lines of quote graphics and text and I therefore consider stupid since I'd be making some odd 5-10 different ones anyways) and to warn me that if I'm not approved by the headhoncho my suggestions won't be taken seriously (and yes, the main editor's post was the one immediately before this one) *Sigh*

Okay, I refuse to stop posting since I really am quite angry about getting dragged by my mother, no anger at Kyle though...he does need the car. So, we have analyzing Colin lessons # 1 and # 2:
Lesson 1) If Colin isn't smiling he's either tired or pissed off. If he's tired, he can either be the "let me sleep" kind where he's pretty much a pushover or the "I've had it" tired where he'll become pissed very very quickly.
Lesson 2) If Colin adjusts his rearview mirror his mood has changed. Since the level of straitness which Colin's spine assumes is a general function of his mood, an adjuctment of his mood is reflected in his posture when causes him to have to manipulate the mirror.

The Band concert sounded good, even the singing. My major issues are that A) I really can't praise anyone/ any section because all Brass sound generally the same (Except when a Trombone has slides) and same with woodwinds. Moreover, you really can't see breath so you can't prove when they are playing sometimes. With Strings it is fairly obvious who is playing and when. A moving bow is a fairly decent indicator. Moreover then moreover, I prefer the orchestra's having all sections represented the in front row (so much cooler then mass flutes I think) and the Basses elevated by stools are standing so you can see them as well. Visablity is cool. Okay, I guess we'll have to do some actual congrats. A generic followed by a kudos to the Concert Lead Saxaphone and then props to Claire (whose little sister looks just like her) and Mimi and Derek (for good posture, good playing, and being all around cool for Juniors). I also had the privledge of shouting the word "Canopy" at Chang. How's that for something you don't do every day.

I'm going to be doing nothing in any class except Orchestra and Econ tomorrow and it's not like I'm not already vindictively sarcastic around Palmer and have stopped caring about Econ anyways.

Today's unsafe household activity: Microwaving Helium Balloons.

Deep apologies to anyone I missed on AIM.