Glitter is the Herpes of Craft Supplies; Sand is the Glitter of the Earth

I'm posting really a lot lately, but i figure i won't post much for the next two weeks, so it's alright. By the way, two weeks from now i'll be walking out of The Dark Knight fully satisfied and with a renewed man-crush on Christian Bale. Seriously though, isn't he just the coolest? i digress.

Tomorrow, or rather, in 4 hours, we're supposedly leaving for Utah. Realistically it'll be lucky if we leave before noon, but my goal is to be completely ready for 6 so that i can sleep in the car. The hours of 5-10 aren't something i generally experience these days, and i anticipate it will be painful.

Today i mowed the lawn, nearly ruining the lawn mower in the process. No one has ever explained to me the vital importance of not-over filling the oil, or how easy it is to do this. Anyway, forty-five minutes of siphoning and adding new oil later, the lawn mower was running great and finished the lawn with flying colors, mostly green.

I went to Institute which was alright, and then tried to go to some rope swing in D'Iberville, but there ended up being a mess, a gaggle if you will, of trashed teenagers, which took away from the awesome just a little. We spent a lot of time driving around and ended up at the beech, which was boring because the beeches here blow. Then we went to Denny's, which never disappoints. Brinner is the best.

Reading through the first half of my journal last night (which covers essentially all of 11th and 12th grade) was more than a little depressing. I'm glad i've matured a little since back then. Hopefully my 19 year old self won't be as much of an embarrassment to my 22 year old self as my 16 year old self is to me.

So now i'm waiting for my laundry to finish. I still have 1.5 runs in the dryer to get through before i can finish packing, so i figure i'll start on that and be ready for my clothes when they're done. I've got an exciting 3 days of driving ahead of me, and on Sunday i'll be in Utah. Hoorah.

In case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight.

Oh, P.S.- Happy Birthday USA. Just because I'm super excited about leaving you for two years, and have toyed with the idea of just leaving forever because of how screwed up people have made you, doesn't mean i love you any less. The last eight years were hard and a little embarrassing for me as well, but now that we're out of that awkward stage, we can learn from our mistakes and move forward, make new friends keep our best friends around, and find our place in the world. Happy 232nd, and many more.

Already i'm so lonesome i can die...

Well, school is almost done. Tomorrow i have to do a project, and then i'm more or less done. Typical of my life, the days before i leave are the best of my stay here. Everything i have wanted this year has come about very recently. I have great friends, i have enough money, i can walk again, it's warm and happy, i even have a relationship of sorts (btw, i'm not sure whether or not it's worth dating in the weeks before you leave somewhere for 2 years. It does make that last little bit a lot of fun, but it makes leaving so very hard.) But i guess that's why it's called a sacrifice, and i'm sure when i come back, everything will still be here, though perhaps not through the same people. My friend offered to chip for a bus ticket, and it was really very tempting. But tuesday remains my departure. That john denver song is great, but it takes on so much more meaning when you're leaving someplace. Actually lots of songs do. We sang Improve Each Shining Moment and God Be With You Till We Meet Again in church today, which was nice, since this is the last sunday for a large portion of the ward.

I actually have lost my voice almost entirely over the past couple of days and have a pretty gnarly cough, but other than that, this last weekend has been awesome. Friday i had a linear algebra and a physics final, with a physical in between. The physics final didn't go great but it's awesome to be done. And in talking to other people i get the feeling that it didn't go great for too many people, so hooray for curves. Other than that friday was pretty chill, i watched doctor who, did something productive i think, and went to sleep.

Saturday was amazing. I don't think a day could be very much better than saturday was, except if you threw in like a temple trip in the morning, but otherwise it was a very complete day. We went to play baseball at the place where the sandlot was filmed, and also saw vincent's drug store (which looks exactly the same) and tore the skin off a baseball, and i bought glass bottles of pop and rootbeer, so all in all it was a very sandlotish day. After that i went to a modern dance performance, which was cool, if a little abstract. Then we hung out for a while, got hot chocolate, and watched august rush, which is a really sweet movie, and has a very cool soundtrack. That little kid is such a great actor. Also saturday night i submitted my misson papers, so that's almost done with

Today was nice too, i got to church on time so i got to play piano one last time. Sunday school was good, we did Q&A with return missionaries on stuff. And then the bishopric spoke and said farewell and that sort of thing. After church i got an interview with the bishop so now all that stands between me and my call is setting up an interview with the stake president. This actually may turn out to be difficult, but i'm sure everything will work out. After church i ate and took a nap and then went to dinner, ward prayer, and then we watched a couple movies to round the night up very late. Now i'm tired, and i have to get up tomorrow to do that project and hopefully have a bit of time for fun, so it's time for bed. The next one of these will most likely be from mississippi, so, until then, fare well.

~Roger the Shrubber

Oh, by the way, we can now rest easy knowing that i don't have Tuburculosis, or as some have loved to call it, "The Consumption!!" So yeah, physicals, while always extremely awkward, and great when they basically tell you that you are entirely healthy. Fun times.

I said please don't slow me down if i'm going too fast

It's midnight, and by tuesday i need to have written half of a 25 page paper (my partner is doing the other half), not to mention the two tests, 2 projects, and an essay that all ought to be done before i leave utah. It's sort of scary how fast time is going, but i've decided that it's always best to have something your excited about come right after something you're dreading, that way it doesn't take forever to come. My hair is a little less extreme than it was wednesday night, i got my friend to go in and trim the top so now it's a somewhat respectable faux-hawk, which is good, mohawks, while fun, are quite silly. Silly Logan...

Anyway, this weekend was a lot of fun. Friday night i had a date. I dunno why i always do this to myself. A week before you are leaving town for two years is no time to think about starting up a relationship, and i'm not really, but it just makes me a little sad for what could have been had time worked out differently. It might have something to do with the fact that when i realize i have absolutely nothing to lose i have an easier time getting over shyness and the like, but mostly it's just unfortunate circumstance, a complete lack of serendipity. But yeah, friday night was fun, and the saturday was filled with church activities. We had a temple trip in the morning, another reason i was glad that i had taken care of the mohawk friday, then a church party in the afternoon. We got there late so the food was gone and i tried to play soccer and discovered my knee isn't better enough for that yet. It also got really gross outside saturday from all the wind. Then i came back and watched the doctor who season finale, they're playing the new season of doctor who on scifi, i'm going to need to figure out how to watch those when i'm back in mississippi. While i'm talking about doctor who, there's a whole bunch of old doctor who (mostly from the Tom Baker era) on netflix's watch now. You should definitely check them out, i do.

Anyway, after that was stake conference, which was nice, even if i did sleep through most of the first half. We went and ate dinner, which Karl paid for cus he's cool like that. Karl also gave me an old oil thing for my key chain, so now i have one of those, which is good. After dinner headed to jake's where we watched Ace Ventura. I hadn't seen the first one in a long long time, so that was fun. Then today i went to grandma's and ate lunch and we hung out and talked for a few hours and then i went back to cami's and did some laundry, had dinner, and watched Lars and the Real Girl, which was good. So here i am. This next week promises to be pretty awful, and the worst part is i don't really have time in utah after it's done to just relax and hang out. Sad. Well i'm going to start working my way towards bed, maybe watch a little doctor who first and stretch my knee out, since i don't need to wake up for another 10 hours. Ahh college.

~Mostly Harmless

The teacher thinks that i sound funny, but she likes the way you sing.

Ahh, General Conference, always a good time. 10 hours of church will never pass as quickly. But yeah, it was cool to see Monson as the Prophet and President and really let it sink in. Sessions were great as always, and i think Thomas Monson wiggling his ears in Priesthood session was quite possibly the most amazing thing i've ever seen. I'm so glad our church is led by people with a sense of humor. But yeah, conference took up most of my weekend, but there were some other fun times. Saturday night i stayed out till 3ish at the after effects of a party at someone's house, talking about relationships and telling fun stories. I don't really like parties, i'm not too great at the whole mingling thing, but i'm good at hanging out, so that was fun.

Because i stayed up so late, i sort of slept through this morning's session (being able to watch conference from in bed is a way to ensure falling asleep) i woke up just as Monson was saying something to the effect that that session was the most spiritually uplifting ever, so i felt sort of bad, but 4.5 sessions of conference is not too shabby. I'm disappointed i didn't get to actually go to any of them, but what can you do?

Elizabeth Arnold told me saturday that some freshman girl thinks i'm cute. While it's always fun to hear, that really doesn't do a whole lot for me, but since i'm going to be gone in three weeks anyway i probably won't worry about it.

Today i went and ate waffles and then hung out for a while and then watched oceans 11 (still full of awesome) and then hung out some more. I was worried because i had physics homework, but that turned out to take me all of 5 minutes.

Tomorrow i'll probably find out what's going to happen with my knee, hopefully nothing major. I'm sad that i tore some ligaments, because those don't ever truly heal, so now i'm going to have to worry about that for the rest of my athletic life. Hopefully i can get something that'll protect it for when i do active things, because there's a pretty good chance that i'll be snowboarding after my mission, and i'd like to be able to take some risks. Either way, not living life because you're afraid of injury is no way to live...i should apply that philosophy to emotional things. Well, that's about all that's going on on my front. Back to you Jim.

Catch a wave and you're sittin' on top of the world

So, what can i say about to day. I went to a concert and heard the format (cool) and Jack's Mannequin (also very cool). I crowd surfed, which was awesome. And then i hung out and then got free ice cream and then watched anchorman, all or mostly with (in order of appearence) Cathy, James, Kelsey, Flora, and Vanessa.

I also have now met every single one of my hometeaching people, and my companion, so i'm pretty well set up. So yeah.

Good Day.

"When i dream, on my own, i'm alone but i ain't lonely."

It's been a short while, because my mom went out of town and took the car and computer with her, which reminded me how much i rely on internet for things, like registering for classes, and talking to people, so i'm thinking i need to get all that done today.

I'm getting ready to go to college, not like packing and stuff, i'm just starting to feel the anticipation and excitement of going. I think it's going to be great, although i'm still a little worried about xmisunderstoodx as a roommate, but i guess logan had almost as lame an alias, and he turned out ok, so there's some hope.

Yesterday i got a call from caitlin telling me that i had work. They had put me on SA, which i haven't done in months, so i didn't check the schedule. This meant i had to quit the really excellent super smash brothers game and high tail it to sal and mookies. It was alright, my manager wasn't mad or anything, but it sucks, because now i realize i have to work everyday this week, instead of just twice. That was kinda a bummer.

In other news, my mom and brother being back have made me appreciate having the house to myself, especially in the mornings. It's just so nice and quiet, and even more importantly, there are never other random people in my house that make it impossible to eat breakfast before i have a shirt on, and other such joys of alone living. Oh, and isaac badgering me to play with him is annoying in the extreme.

I've been playing a lot of risk lately, and i've found out a few things. The first, and most important, is to never start a game of risk at midnight. It's really not a good idea. We played risk until 8am on monday morning. Also, without spencer, it's a lot easier for me to win, since we think very similarly in risk, and just end up hurting each other in the end. Finally, i am really really lucky in terms of risk. Maybe it's not all luck, but it definitely seems like i roll better than i ought to. And there's always the great spencer massacre of 2007, in which 40 or so of spencer's troops were killed, mostly while fighting individual armies of mine, by around 17 of mine. He took me down to one troop, but that was enough for me to come back and win the game. That was an odd game.

I watched the simpsons movie. I liked it, it was funny, although it definitely felt the strain of being a movie instead of an episode. There were a few things that were funnier because it was a movie, but mostly there was more plot and less funny. But it was still worth my 7.25, and it was a nice place to finish my taco bell food.

That same day we went up to josh's lake house and swam around a bit, then swam, paddled, or floated across the lake to the pool, where we swam and dove and played chicken and marco polo and other fun things. There was a bit of lightning, but we outlasted it. That was a lot of fun, i hadn't swam just for fun in a long time.

I think that's about the extent of happening things lately. So i'm gonna do things, or something.

So that i can feel the rain

Yesterday and today have been pretty busy. Night before last i watched a twilight zone marathon until 4am (a grave mistake, but a fun one), and so all day thursday i was a little off. I got up at around 11 and filled nail holes for a while. My mom told me i had to bury a dead osprey in the neighbor's yard (it was in the neighbors yard already, that's not just where i buried it). Apparently the afformentioned osprey were sick, ergo the odd habitation, or else some loathsome neighbor decided that osprey make too much noise and shot them, either way, it fell to me to bury the bird, which smelled quite awful by then. So i did that, and then rested for a while, then i sanded and filled a couple more nail holes, then our neighbor came over and said that there was another bird that i had missed. So i buried another osprey, originally i'd planned to use the post hole digger, since that would have gone way faster, but that broke, so i had to fall back on the shovel. So i finished that, and i covered up the two graves with some bamboo do discourage them from being dug up. After that my mom gave me the choice between painting and running errends and i chose the latter, so i went to Indian cycle and they said that it would cost 255 dollars to fix up my dad's bike, so that was a rip off, i think we can probably fix it ourselves for about 30. Oh, and i got lost on the way because i forgot how the ridgeland exit works. But yeah, after that i went to Circuit City to put a new radio into our car, and i had to wait an hour and a half while they did that so i read some books at barnes and noble and ate a sandwich. The car eventually got done, and i drove over to johnny's work and got some food there. That was great, but i set it on top of the car when i left and it disappeared, i suspect chicken hawks. After that i got a bit lost again, but eventually found my way to lakeland and went to lowe's. Lowe's, i found out, is like Home Depot, only the selection is crap, and the service is awful. so that was nice, and then i went home. I watched Rope, which is a great movie, huzzhah for Hitchcock, and then i went to sleep.

Today i worked in the attic, which is always an awful experience, but then i got Mac and Cheese. Now i'm waiting until it's time to work, and eagerly anticipating Harry Potter. I'm going to buy it at midnight and read it straight through again, partially because i want to, but also because my mom is leaving tomorrow at 12, and wants to take the book with her (since she's the rightful owner)

Right now isaac is trying to play Shadows over Camelot with the neighbor kids, which is funny since he doesn't actually have any idea how to play. I'm hiding in my room, because small children not related to me generally get on my nerves. That's all for me.

~Mr. Vertigo on the Flying Trapeze

So, it's been a little while

The major problem with owning a Wii is now my free time is more like Frii time, and while super fun, it's sucking up my time for being productive, and more importantly, blogging.

A lot's gone down over the past while. I'm going to go backwards, because that's the way i remember it.

I just got back from Pirates of the Caribbean, which is a really great movie. It makes the 2nd movie worth watching, although still inexcusably bad. It was nice to finally hang out with johnny a bit, since i haven't in a while, hopefully there'll be some of that tomorrow.

Since my last post i've pretty much finished high school. It's insane. I got my cap and gown on Tuesday. All that remains is a hefty calculator fine, since the one i borrowed and the really awesome ti-89 i won both got stolen out of my backpack. So that made me pretty upset. Add that to the tab of stuff that morally lacking people owe me along with yu-gi-oh cards, a trogdor shirt, and a bike, all stolen on jackson public school property. So glad that's the last time that'll happen.

I've had some nice hanging out and saying goodbye with the cool teachers that i like, mr. jones, mrs. williams, mrs. polanski, unfortunately i haven't really gotten to do the whole goodbye thing for ms brierly or mrs van uden, but i'll get to that hopefully. It's really weird to think that this is the last time i'm going to be seeing a lot of people.

I've mostly been working lately. I really like my job, and my job really likes me. It sounds kinda self centered, but i like this job a lot because i'm much more appreciated than i was at backyard burgers. 2/3 of my managers liked me there, but Andrew, Joe, and Jeff are all very good at complementing good work. It's cool. I wish i could keep working here and live in Salt Lake.

Wow. I'm going to be living in salt lake in less than two months. I still haven't quite gotten a handle on this whole college thing. I've applied for housing, picked roommates (which was really hard) and scheduled some orientation. I fly out of mississippi on the 14, and i'm gone. insane.

I've also been playing Zelda a lot. Like really a lot, i've had it for less than a week and i've played it over 30 hours i think. But c'est la vie and all that.

I finished up all my AP exams, and i expect to do at least very decent. I'm hoping for 5's on the english and math exams, but i have a hard time knowing. The gov i'll shoot for a 3, a four if i'm lucky, and i'd be more than happy to have a 3 for euro.

I've been noticing how much working at Sal and Mookie's has reworked the way i think. I now have a few weird compulsions, like stabbing tickets, and taking dirty plates. I very naturally carried three plates at a pot-luck, and when i handed someone a drink i came very very close to saying, "you enjoy that sir" in my sort of cheesily sincere kindness i've been developing. I also hold the door open for people and say hi or ask them how their doing on the street. Sal and Mookies has done more to instill southern hospitality in a month than the south has in 14 years.

It's also kinda weird to think that i'll be leaving the south. As much as i've tried to avoid it, this is very much where i'm from. I get a bit defensive when people from outside the south talk about it, or just are ignorant. I am ready to go though. Even though i doubt college will be the holy grail of coolness, success, and awesome that i'm hoping for, i'm hoping the mayor won't be completely insane and the bureaucracy completely useless. But i wax political.

That's all that comes to mind as far as news and such. i had my seminary graduation a little bit ago, so that's cool. In one week i will be a high school graduate. go figure.

What is six times nine?

I was hoping that dark rainy thursday night would be a kinda quiet relaxing worknight with an early closing and then on to a nice spiderman III.

Well.

Apparently rainy thursday night means lets all go work the ever-loving-crap out of Ammon and bring every problem possible. Just a little run through: I think first i broke a glass, that was one of the best things that happened to me tonight. Two people's togo orders hadn't even been rung up when the people got there, so they had to wait an extra exorbitant amount of time for their food, somehow, someone decided to add anchovies to a pizza which really didn't need anchovies, we gave a lady the wrong sandwich, and so she called in and said she wanted the right one. This also meant that another person came to get food, and his food wasn't there. Lets see, that may have been the main things that were our fault. On top of that the system was screwing up, the kitchen was screwing up, expo was having some struggles, and we only had one manager, andrew, who about fired me and hung himself. At the end of the night we were 20 dollars short in drawer, so i had to give 10 dollars, and lost 10 dollars in tips (i say had, i offered to pay it all, but the nice lady who did my report recommended half tips) the worst i don't think they were my fault, but they were my responsibility, so i'll deal. I also got 27 dollars today, so i'm no poorer or anything, oh, and i also got a 20 dollar gift certificate and a trophy. woo.

But i love my job, i really do. It's one of about three things that makes me wish i was staying in jackson. I wish i could take it with me to college. oh well.

But yeah, it's now 3:20, and i have 3 glorious hours of sleep before i start tomorrow, which will probably be about as rough as today, except tomorrow i get my pay check. Word.

Oh, and spiderman was amazing, it made tonight just a bit good, and is letting me go to sleep without feeling like complete crap. hoorah.

this weekend feels like a bit of a waste kinda. Well, mostly Saturday. Friday was lots of fun. But because of work i started hanging out at around 11:30, and didn't get home around 3. I slept in until 1ish, and have to go to work at 4:15, so there's not a whole lot i can do in between. I am probably going to get mad tips from yesterday though, so that's kinda nice, but i'm not really having any time to spend them, so yeah. I remember how this goes, but i figure once summer kicks in (in no more than 3 weeks) i'll be able to have tons of fun. i'm looking forward to it. I'm also looking forward to my pay check friday, i can't decide whether to buy a Wii or a Cell phone, but right now i'm leaning towards a Wii, probably by then i'll have enough money to buy a cell phone in tip outs, so i may do both. We shall see.

This friday is Spiderman 3, i really want to see it at midnight, but i have to wake up at around 6:30 the next morning to drive to laurel for a piano competition, so i dunno if that's going to work out. I'll have that friday off though, so i'll probably just see it during the day sometime or something.

Movies Review 8-10

I've watched three movies in the past two days, so here goes, i'm going to rate these out of 10, because i feel like it.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
One of my favorite plays that we've read for english, Ros and Guil has a really great plot and a really fun set up. The movie version is not quite as good as the play i don't think, but i shouldn't compare. It was a really good movie, Gary Oldman was great. So were richard dreyfuss and tim roth, but i liked Rosencrantz a lot more. The dialogue was great, and the word tennis was really cool. All in all a really good movie, i figure a 8 is good.

A Prairie Home Companion
I'd seen this movie before, but i think it gets better the second time. Garrison Keiller is amazing as always, i think i could listen to him talk for days. Kevin Kline is terribly funny as Guy Noir, and Dusty and Lefty are great as well. The plot for this movie seems just a tad lacking, but it's a nice final movie for Robert Altman. The part of the Dangerous Woman seems just a little superfluous, but i really like her character, and she is portrayed really well. The only thing that keeps this movie from being perfect is Lindsey Lohan. I dunno whether i don't like her, or whether i don't like or character, but she was just unnecessery and annoying. She can't sing that well, and her final song was kinda lame. If it wasn't for her this movie could be much greater, but she really robs it of the smooth, calm, witty humor of A Prairie Home Companion. Anyway, 9/10 for this one to.

Raising Arizona
This movie was really great. I'm a big Nicholas Cage fan, and i really liked the very slapstick comedy. I also really likes some of the references, or rather the places that were referenced in later movies. Dapper dan wound up in O Brother, Where art thou? and even though i can't find anyone mentioning this online, i'm pretty positive that the scene where the biker guy is riding up is a reference to Ghost Rider, a favorite comic of Cage, and was later referenced in Ghost Rider, where the little lizard bursts into flames. So yeah, i thought that was cool. All in all it was just a very funny movie and fun to watch. I'll give it 10, although it definitely wasn't my favorite movie, i really liked it.

Movie Review V?

the big V, or something, i can never keep track of how many of these i've done. Today movie is Princess Mononoke, from the Hayao Miyazaki collection.

I'd seen this before, and i liked it a lot the first time, and i liked it again. I think it loses quite a bit with the english voice acting, since the voices just don't match what the characters should sound like. Otherwise though visually it was a great movie. Anime was made for ninja like movement. The music was kinda weak, but only the music with singing. The plot was good, rather original and very interesting, with a touch of moral to it. All in all it gets 4 stars, it would get 5, but i don't like those americans but i forgot to put it in Japanese with captions

firefox's spell check tries to correct japenese with ripenesses

EDIT: apparently this is number 7, go figure.

Top Gun and The Astronaut Farmer

Well, my two blogs have been successfully merged. on to some movie reviews

Top Gun
Top Gun, which i haven't seen since i was little, was quite good. The acting was all very good, the action was very believable, and not at all over done, the soundtrack was good, and the whole movie was pretty fun. The plot moved along kinda slowly at times, but that's how movies seem to have been before we got so used to having action constantly thrown at us. Nothing much to say with this one, i give it 3.7 stars, it gets an extra .2 for being a classic.

The Astronaut Farmer
This movie, on the other hand, was not quite good. It was very close to being good, i wanted to like it, but it just didn't pull through. The acting, while not bad, was weird. Almost awkward, especially the little girls. The plot was pretty terrible, and the story itself wasn't believable at all. It was never very engaging, and almost nothing happens. When it does happen, it happens suddenly and it feels forced. While i like rocket building montages, i still don't know how he built a rocket when he had almost no money. The whole thing was just silly. Final vote: 2 stars. I'm just glad i didn't have to pay for this.

Ghost Rider

hm, my monitor's a popping, that's never a good sign. Anyway on to movie review #4? sounds about right.

Ghost Rider.
First of all, i should say that i liked it. Now, what was wrong with it? The acting was a bit bad at times (though nick cage was cool like always) the dialogue was pretty terrible, predictable and corny. The plot was nearly as predictable and corny, and the final fight didn't seem quite epic enough. The fights all seemed to easy for him too. The music was great, the effects were pretty good, and i liked it. It was kinda campy, and felt very much like a comic book.

Final count: 3.5

MirrorMask

Movie Review #3, this week i watched MirrorMask. It was a cool movie. There are some complaints about the plot being a bit hackneyed, which i suppose is true. Very Alice in Wonderland, very labyrinth, but still a really cool movie. The acting was good, the visual effects were pretty awesome, and despite the plot being used, it was still good. Had the plot been a bit less predictable, it could have been amazing, but i still liked it a lot. All in all, i give it 4.5 stars.

What Dreams May Come

Movie review #2
What Dreams May Come:
I liked What Dreams May Come a lot. The acting was excellent, Robin Williams was very believable and very likable. I really liked the movie's idea of Heaven, not least of all because it's rather close to mine. The paint was just cool, and reminded me of Hook a bit. I had seen it before, but i didn't really remember much, so it was all pretty cool. Hell was pretty interesting, although they never quite explained whether it, like heaven, was the product of your thoughts and emotions, or if it was a more tangeable place where people were punished. Religious discussions aside however, it was very properly gloomy and bad. Perhaps more than anything else, this movie is really good to look at. All the scenary is amazing, the way colors were used was especially artistic. Now, however, i need to go to school, and so i've got to stop this.

Final Score: 4/5

MC Competition

I guess i'll do this. I have some time before school and not a whole lot to do. I'm really sleepy. Last night i was up past midnight, as per usual, trying to do a poetry response. At some point i feel asleep and my mom came in and woke me up. I went to bed since staying up wasn't getting anything done. Yesterday was pretty fun, i went to school around 8ish and then we drove to Mississippi College for the MAO competition. The testing was decent, bio was really hard. Then we got lunch at Pizza hut, which was pretty good i must say. After that we went back to MC for the quizbowl stuff. The groups our chosen randomly, and when we got there we found that we were in a group with MSMS and St. Andrews. Things did not bode well for us. However, as the questions started coming, we were dominating. Or, more truthfully, spencer was dominating. I got one or two in, but probably 9/10 or our points came directly from spencer. So anyway, near the end we started doing a little bit worse, and when the scores were called, St. Andrews had beat us by one question. We beat MSMS though, and the top two teams move on.

In the second round, the questions got a lot harder. We did pretty badly at the beginning. A lot of physics, which we really don't know. We still did pretty decent, and at the end we had gotten third place, after Prep and Oak Grove. We beat Clinton, Warren Ctrl, and, best of all for spencer, St. Andrews, including spencer's arch nemisis...that girl whose name i can't remember. Anyway, it was pretty awesome. We went to the awards ceremony and the tests had been broken, meaning the awards ceremony lasted about 10 minutes, which was great. We played indian poker before and during it.

After the awards ceremony we went to baskin robins where i got some complimentary ice cream provided by Theresa. That was pretty cool. then theresa, spencer, michael, and I all went back to my house, where i had to do financial aid stuff. We also played fuseball and speed and eventually went to mcnally's to hang for a bit after dropping Michael and Spencer off at Murrah. We went to blockbuster and back to my house (minus Theresa), and eventually michael and spencer came back and we watched What Dreams May Come. Then we made pizza and hung out and messed around and went home.

on my other blog i reviewed What Dreams May Come, but basically i liked it. Now it's time for me to go to school, so so long.

~That Undiscovered Counry

How long must we sing this song?

Today while i was sitting in church (for some reason today in church i was very introspective, i think it was because i was sleepy, and the talks waxed soporific) i realized that i was really ready to be somewhere else. I don't really feel like i fit in where i'm at anymore. It's not that i feel left out or anything like that, it just that everything isn't quite right for me. School is either too much work or too boring (if not both) or english, which i still thoroughly enjoy. Soccer's done, which takes that out. Church is by and large too basic for me, which isn't suprising. I realized today that i'm just a couple weeks away from being essentially done with young mens (at 18 we leave youth and start real church). The same thing happened to me just before the end of primary (which is for kids 3-12). I'm looking forward to having lots of people my age in my church, which i imagine will happen once i'm bussed (or more likely flown) off to some remote city to begin my illustrious education. Even just within my friends, the whole not drinking and other moral convictions deal kinda makes party's not my thing. I dunno, i just feel like i'm in the wrong place for where i am in my life. It'll probably pass.

I think i can let this blog do movie reviews too, so without much ado: The Covenent.

I was really dissapointed with the Covenent. It's the first movie i've just disliked in a long time. It didn't really seem to find it's focus, unable to decide between horror or action. The scary scenes were forced and the action scenes weren't nearly epic enough. The super powers weren't nearly cool enough. I think that actually might be my main complaint, now that i think about it. I'll overlook most movies' flaws if they're fun to watch, this one wasn't though. With 'ultimate power' they just faught like Dragon Ball Z expect less cool. The ending was phoney, and the dialog was tacky. It was like if the WB got hit by some cheap horror flick. It didn't really explain things well, and it awkwardly forced a sequal to be possible, without even enough resolution to let this movie sit on it's own. Every cool part of this movie was revealed in the previews, which also gave away the plot. And that rediculous weather. I know fall in New England can get a little crazy, but a thunderstorm every night is just silly.

Anyway, final score, 2/5. If it's on you might watch it, but don't go out of your way.