The last few days have been study, study, study. Finals week is just around the corner and I'm leaving no room for slackerdom as I approach the last week of school.

The last three days have been focused on a stressful math test. The day before was studying. The day of was the test. The day after, which was today, was the recovery period. It sounds silly that I'd fret so much over a simple test, but in reality, whenever I struggle at anything it annoys me. The good news is that I didn't give up. When I got extreme test anxiety during the test because I thought I was running out of time, I just took a few seconds, breathed, and returned to working on the test. It go so bad at one point however, that when I glanced back down at the test I couldn't remember what number I had been working on. The line from the song goes, "Yeah baby, you got it, you got it bad."

Right now I'm waiting for my Dad to get home. We're going to go drive around the left side of the DMV area to prepare myself for the driving test tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully there will be no problems, and I'll be a licensed driver that afternoon. I really hope I will be, but there's no telling: there's always a place for a simple mistake. I feel prepared though overall, I mean, it's driving, and I've been doing it for quite some time, so it's not like I haven't had practice over the last few months. The only thing left for me to study is the terrain, so that I can execute my turns flawlessly.

Last night, after my stressful test, I got home and took a two hour nap. I was pretty upset to tell you the truth. Liz and Merlin came over in the evening, after I finished three hours of straight reading (for an English project due Friday). I ended up writing the report today (Thursday) in the Library. I spent around three or four hours on it, which isn't bad for a five page report and my typing speed. I don't think my mom was too happy with it's outcome, but it's not very easy for me to write a simple plot summary and thematic analysis report on a book that I didn't enjoy reading. I would much rather spend my time reading valuable classics than reading the story of an African tribe. It did indeed have a lesson to teach, however the lesson it had wasn't one I was very interested in, because it was a lesson I have already learned first hand.

It's funny in a way. There's a girl named Caitlin Hicky who has a real grudge against me. Way back at the beginning of the year I was talking about how people would make fun of my leg hair. That's the same Caitlin. She still has a hair shoved up her ass or somewhere in that vicinity, because she still walks by me in the halls and makes remarks like, "ew", or "look, he's hairy", and she says it just loud enough for me to hear, but not loud enough to embarrass herself. One day I actually stopped her when she said that, and told her she wasn't pretty, she was stupid, and to back the hell off. It worked to an extent, because she left me alone from then until now, and since that was four months ago I'd say it was effective. The only problem with the situation is that now it has escalated to a situation of open hatred for her. She openly tells all her friends just how much she hates me, and talks aloud and vigorously with her hatred. To be honest, I could care less of her existence. She means nothing to me. She's just another hurdle, but this one really isn't in my path, and it won't be for quite some time. I've already lapped her. The only time I'll have to deal with her again is when I keep running around that track and pass her a second time, leaving her once again in my wake.

I'm getting anxious that my Dad still hasn't arrived at home, so I'm going to talk about my car. I bought a CD-Cassette adapter and it works very well. As a matter of fact, my Dad bought it. I was going to buy one for $19.99, but I asked him to check around, and at some unheard of Hardware store in Guerneville, he managed to find one for $9.99. I was pleased with it, and reimbursed my mom earlier this evening.

I got both of my summer assignments today for the AP Classes I will be taking next year. I am supposed to read and memorize the events in chapters 1-4 of the AP US History book. For AP English I am supposed to read many chapters out of "Understanding Argument", memorize the material from there, memorize two different sheets of vocabulary, and then write two different paragraphs, one passive, and one active, (7-8 sentences each). It looks like I'll have quite a bit of work cut out for me. Even though that doesn't necessarily sound like much work to do, I am sure it will keep my mind busy. I'll probably get it done as soon as I can in the summer, and then just take flash cards and notes on everything I read so that I can review it quickly and have everything fresh in my mind for the new year.

I've got to get going, some things around here need to get done. I've finished my report, my math, and it looks like tomorrow should be a very interesting day. Hopefully I am able to get that license, because I need to work at Jon Zweig's house on the drafting project Saturday. Speaking of which, I need to call him and make sure that he got the supplies.

I've been attending lunchtime meetings for leadership classes next year. Next year is going to be busy, oh so busy, but oh so fun.

My mom started reading my journal entries, which makes me very happy. I'm glad to know that she cares about what's going on in my life. If I ever have kids, I hope they write a journal online, or on whatever the future of online is, so that I have the opportunity to "see" what they're thinking and to sympathize with what's going on in their lives.

Liz and I are doing quite well, but physically she's not doing so well. It's a long story, and at the moment I'm pretty happy so I don't want to go into it. We got in our first semi-argument last night . . . she got frustrated, I wasn't frustrated though, so I don't call it an argument yet. Either way, I'm happy with her, so I say all is well.

Hopefully, my Dad gets home soon and I can drive out and see Liz at the Windsor Bowling Alley. I really want to see her tonight, because it could help alleviate some of the stress on the driving test tomorrow.
And Then The Morning Comes

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