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Whee DDR. I went over to Luke's this afternoon for general funness. I played Magic for the first time in months. Also saw some Warcraft 3 (FT) and this interesting Battle Realms RTS. DDRing was nice, but Extreme American edition sucks so much, and the pads were pretty bad. And Captain Jack is creepy as HELL. Still fun though.

Swim practice was really nice. A bit hard, but I need to get in shape quick.

WOOHOO AGORA DAYS!

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Argh, I sucked so much yesterday. I'd like to blame it on being sick, but I don't think that mattered very much. I totally died on the Geometry thing on the ICTM and then failed to keep Alex under control for the 2-person team. Then I went to the meet and totally messed up my 100 breaststroke. I didn't even make my seed time, and Jack Clifford beat me. Artem won though, and got his Nationals cut. That was cool.

Yay, Scoobs reminded me to listen to Dvorak 's Symphony #9. You know, the New World Symphony. We sightread it in orchestra last week. It totally reminded me that I had almost all of Dvorak's symphonies in iTunes. Hehe. I also bought Shostakovich's Festive Overture from iTMS. Uncharacteristically happy, but still pretty good. There are some spots that have those trademark harmonies of his that I love so much, but not anywhere near as cool as the string quartets.

babies everywhere!

That Registration Day thing was pretty handy. No class (yay) as well as a chance to get to know our electives a little better. The day probably could've ended earlier, but Jono and I got to listen to some good old music. I also got to see that "I Feel Great!" Nutragrain commercial a few times. Luke decided that he had to make sure that EVERYONE IN THE SCHOOL saw it. Gargoyle came out today, and was fairly uninteresting, considering that it was like twice as big as a usual issue. That dating show article was pretty funny, I guess.

Yay for the ICTM. I get to be with mini-supergenius Alex Zhai for the two-person team. Of course, I don't remember anything about geometry. That's really annoying cause the test is really easy if you know the theorems for the problem, but if you don't, it's impossible. And I wish I knew who I was with for 8-person team. That's always fun.

Also, the Xbox has firewire support? Wait. No. The cables just catch on fire. Time to send Microsoft my address so they can give me a new cord. It might be a rare occurence, but I have a fair amount of AV equipment in the cabinet with my Xbox...

omg wtf regular updates

A sign of regular updates? Probably not, I just have a lot of free time today.

I'm all caught up with everything that I missed yesterday except for chem, but I only have a few tests left to run there. Virtually no hw tonight, just finishing Emma (done already) and math (easy). Still got something of a headache but not too much. I'll prolly try to get out of fitness, cause of sickness & sectionals this weekend.
Japanese speech went well. The judge said I did good, though I stumbled a few times

Man was the Daily Show good. Steven Colbert revealed that he was a distant relative (by which he meant grandson) of Hitler, that he used to be a Columbian drug mule, and that he killed and ate a panda. Jon Stewart couldn't even look at him without laughing for the entire segment.

Cartoon Network now has One Piece and Naruto. Both quality Shonen Jump anime. I think I'll have to keep watching Naruto fansubs though, despite the fact that it's US licensed. Why? Because it's coming to Toonami 3rd quarter (this fall). Toonami runs once a week. There are 52 weeks in a year. I watched episode 121 the day before yesterday. It'll be over two years before I get to see new episodes if I wait. Plus it'll be dubbed.

If anyone has any plans for the now-11 dismissal on Friday tell me.

real update

I think I'll write up a real post today. I went home early today cause I've got a nasty headache. Not really a good excuse, but it's like the worst headache I've ever had. I don't get headaches very often. I still have to do the math homework (no trig book), as well as make up the math quiz. Fortunately I have 2 free periods tomorrow, and the math quiz shouldn't take long at all.
I also missed the orchestra concert. Domier tells me that Max Goldberg wasn't there either, so John Mark was the only one. Oh well, he's plenty good, and there aren't that many hard trombone parts.
There really isn't too much going on before Agora days... That noon dismissal holds great potential for fun. I also just realized that tomorrow night will be the last homework that I have to do before Agora days. That's neat.

agora days final schedule

• Breakfast with Aria and Elizabeth
• Badminton
• FREE
• Cell Game
• South Park
• Jazz Improv
• Japan Trip 2005
  
• FREE

Got all first choices except Halo and GitS. Not too bad. A lot of people have 3rd and 8th free, so there will likely be some gaming going on those hours.

stuff's happening

I, for one, am glad I'm not on the chess team or in Journalism.

The (Parkland) ICTM is next Saturday! Yay! So is swimming Sectionals tho... It'll be tight getting to both, but sectionals isn't a big deal. The IHSA state qualifying times are faster than Y National cuts. And ICTM state isn't until April 30? That's a long time from now.
Also, early out omorrow! So DDR at the Union until 4 for me. Yay!

Agora Days are so close....

I seem to be in a good mood today.

more agora

First (first choice):
Breakfast with Aria and Elizabeth
First (second choice):
Cohen Brothers Filmfest
Second (first choice):
Halo, Bulk
Second (second choice):
Badminton
Third (first choice):
FREE
Third (second choice):
FREE
Fourth (first choice):
Cell Game
Fourth (second choice):
Cell Game
Fifth (first choice):
South Park
Fifth (second choice):
The Way of the Fighting Game
Sixth (first choice):
Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell
Sixth (second choice):
Jazz Improv class
Seventh (first choice):
Japan Trip 2005 (This class is required for the members of Japan Trip 2005.)
Seventh (second choice):
Japan Trip 2005 (This class is required for the members of Japan Trip 2005.)
Eighth (first choice):
FREE
Eighth (second choice):
FREE

bored

Not much going on. The only interesting thing happening before Agora Days is the Japanese speech contest. Which I should probably be working on.... :/ Watched Gundam SEED Destiny 16 (recap episode), anbudom.net, and WHAM -- new release, Jinki: Extend 01. So I'm rather pleased with that.

I still have a chance at going to the AIME, since they take the top 5% of AMC 12 scorers. That's pretty good too.

Take a look at this too. Pretty amusing, although the warning is no longer on Apple's site. :(

agora days

My prospective Agora Days schedule:

1

-Breakfast with Aria and Elizabeth
-Cohen Brothers Filmfest

2

-Ultimate Frisbee
-Free if I can't get in.

3

-Free, but I'll prolly go steal food from the kitchen.

4

-Teaching Cell Game

5

-South Park
It'd be hella lame if I didn't get in.

6

-Ghost in the Shell
-Jazz Improv

7

-Japan Trip
I'd be all over Medieval Combat and Halo if I had a choice. :(

8

-Free, if I need a class, I'll go for Family Guy.


Links are a pain.

ARGH

CRAP. I got a 99.5 on my AMC 12... Half a point from qualifying for the AIME. I got a 119.5 last year on the AMC 10, also a half point from qualifying. Blargle. Answeres are online: AMC 10 and AMC 12. Hopefully I'll do better at the ICTM. Probably not though, since I forgot every geometry theorem I ever learned. Calculator team looks good though, especially since super-genius Alex Zhai is likely to be the freshman representative, so I get to do e-a-s-y problems.
Japanese speech time. Later.