After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

Pro Cantorum totally kicked butt at the OMEA district choir competition today, unfortunately, we did not have a chance to take names. I was not really excited about the competition today because I thought we were going to be awful, but we a lot better than I expected. From what I've heard we qualified for state and our scores went something like 90, 90, and 87. Pretty nice I think. But I must say, the greatest thing about today by far was getting to see our real director. Mr. Frick came to watch us perform today and will apparently be returning to us right after spring break. He's still really skinny and probably not up to full capacity work-wise yet, but he's back and that's what matters. It will be so nice to have our director back. Yeah, so I had a good day.

Apparently this is my British alter-ego. Go figure....

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Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso

This day cannot be easily explained in one or two words words. I can't decide if the day was good or bad. There were many many good parts, but one or two overwhelmingly bad parts that have rather soured my mood on the whole day.

I woke up at a pretty decent time, got ready at my own leisurely pace, had an enjoyable choir class, hung out in the band room the nest period, and found out I got an A on my Gov. quiz the next period. But then it came to math class. Now, generally I look forward to math class, math isn't my favorite subject, but the teacher is cool and there are...other reasons to go as well ;) but today was not fun. We started CIM testing for math and it was insane. Some of the questions were completely out of the league of mere math 300 students and in the middle of the test the power went out on my computer. Now granted, all of my progress was saved, but I had to sit there for a good length of time waiting for my stupid computer to load. Something else happened after class too, it's not important, but it still made me kinda mad. When I got home my new purse finally came in the mail, and that helped a little, but still, the stupid math class adventures have irritated me quite a bit.

I'll be fine sooner or later....at least I don't have any homework.....

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity. - Seneca

As some of you might have noticed, I was not around much the last couple of days. I have been off doing various and sundry things since Friday morning. At about 9:00 AM on Friday I went with my mom and some kids from her class on a field trip to the big Powell's downtown. I had a lot of fun hanging out with some of the cute little kids in that class. Hali has to be the coolest 6th grader ever, she's such a sweetheart and reminds me a lot of myself. I was really excited to get to hang out with her while we were on the field trip.

Right after we got back from Powell's I went straight to the Subway in Troutdale to meet up with the Youth Light crew for the 30 Hour Famine. After eating lunch and running a few quick errands with Kristi, we divided into groups and went on a video scavenger hunt. It was great fun. I think the highlight was when we got Mr. Olczak and Diana in the front office to sing part of the National Anthem together. Or maybe when Mr. Brooks sang "I'm a Little Teapot" and was horrible at it....In any case, the scavenger hunt was a blast.

Following that excitement we headed over to Advent Lutheran Church and got settled. Kristi did her bible study after that, and then the insanity began. We played some rather harmless games like "Shuffle Your Buns" and then, moved on to one of the wierdest games I have ever played in my life. The game is called "Honey, if you love me, gimme a smile". The object of the game is to pick someone and get them to smile while they are desperately trying to say "Honey, I love you, but I just can't smile" without cracking. There were various methods employed to get people to smile, most of them involved hitting on your victim of choice. (And to answer the question I know is on all of your lips, yes, Peter did get hit on by various lovely girls.) We played the game for several hours until people started getting tired of it. We all had a blast. After that game we had another Bible study and a great prayer session that lasted almost an hour. We then played the ever-popular "Silent Football" and, when everyone was starting to nod off, went to bed at about 2:30 AM.

The next morning we woke up at about 9:30 and, after another lovely Bible study, made 99 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, hopped on the MAX, and distributed them downtown. Then (after a quick Slurpee run) we returned to the church, played some more games, had another Bible study, and finally broke our 30 hour fast by taking communion at 8:00 PM. We then gorged on four pizzas from Papa John's and consumed them all in about fifteen minutes.

After I returned home (to an empty house) I played some Zelda: Ocarina of Time, ate again, watched the movie Overboard, took a shower and finally went to bed. I think I was asleep in about five minutes.

This weekend was so cool, I had fun, made some friends, and was really spiritually refreshing. I hope this feeling of contentment I have now will last for a while, I don't want to let it go.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
- John Howard Payne

This has to be the wierdest, and yet coolest site ever! Just type in your address, click and prepare to be amazed.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. - Robert Morley

That's for Andy.

Wow, much has happened since the last time I posted. On Sunday I was talking to my friend Rachel online and she invited me to walk with her up to the Dollar Tree near RHS to do a little shopping. I ended up spending close to $20 at the Dollar Tree and a grocery store. On Monday I woke up early and went in to re-take a math test aaaaaaand didn't do much else.... Tuesday I went in early again for Youth Light and during the day went with Expressions, Treble and Pro Cantorum choir to sing at some of the middle schools. Yesterday I woke up really late (8:22 AM) and had to run like an insane person to school so I wouldn't be late. I was a complete mess but I still had a really great day. I enjoyed most of my classes and was really happy for some...other reasons....;) Today was also good. I had fun in English, endured French, found out I have one of 2-3 A's in my Science class and acting quite strangely in PE..... (Let's just say there was an incident during class involving me, dancing, and the song "Funky Town") After school I went to see my math classroom to find out how I did on my quiz from Wednesday and found out I got a 20.5/20! I'm really happy considering my grade from the last quiz....And now I'm here....blogging.......

Oh yeah! Tomorrow I'll be doing the 30 hour famine with Youth Light for most of Friday and almost all of Saturday. I think it'll be fun, but maybe not as cool as last year. But that's ok, we're helping people and that's what counts.

And last but not least, check it out, and aerial picture of my house and Reynolds. So cool.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. - Aristotle

Wow, this has been quite the week. Starting out with insane amounts of homework and ending with a super good day!

As I said, I had far too much homework this week what with starting a new book in English class and having two tests (one in French and the other in Biology) to study for. By Tuesday I was starting to feel a bit overwhelmed, but my stress level reached critical capacity on Thursday, the night before my French test. I went to bed feeling completely under-prepared and dreading the next day, not knowing what Friday would bring.

Friday started out pretty bad, I woke up later than I wanted to and didn't get a chance for the last minute study session I had hoped for. I got to school and got what I needed from Mrs. Peterson and then headed over to Mr. Marini's room so that I could take my English Reading CIM test. I had been told previously that the test was quite time consuming and would probably take two class periods to finish. I finished in one period with ten minutes to spare. Since I took the test on TESA (a computer program that administers the test) I was able to see my results right away and I killed that thing. It takes a score of at least 239 to pass, and I beat that by far. One teacher I talked to said the highest score he's heard of on the test is 260 and I received the lovely score of 256! Yay me! I'm really excited, but I'd like to know how the scores are determined. Soon after I finished the English test I went to French. I felt like I was going to hurl. I thought for sure I was going to flunk, but it ended up being possibly the easiest exam I've ever endured in that class. I was so relieved! I next went to my science class and discovered the results of my nerve-wracking Bio test. I got an A, I was so happy! And then I got to pretty much sit around the rest of the period seeing as it was a "make-up day" and I didn't have anything to make up. The rest of that day doesn't really merit any further comment. It wasn't all that exciting.

Enjoy the Spong Monkeys.

"Stop the world! I want to get off!" - Unknown

EEK! Tests! Homework! All around me! It never stops! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!