First of all let me thank my good fortune - Bless three day weekends. Not that it's a great thing to do - to celebrate a day off at the expense of Veterans' previous hell, but it's nice for the hard-working student to have a day off once in awhile.

Woke up around 9:00 and had breakfast - we had a house guest over who I haven't mentioned in this journal yet, so allow me to take a moment and describe him. Truly a wonderful person, his name is Paul K. He's a veteran, with one of those gray beards that covers most of your face. He's certainly not fat, if anything he's muscular. He drinks a lot of beer, and he loves it. He also talks a lot. In many ways he can be seen as an indirect mentor because he reeks of the fact that your life can go straight to hell and you can still pull through and be happy. His house burned down, he lost the one he loved, he lost his cat, but he lived on. That's a real war hero.

Anyway, the morning was consumed by Paul. He asked if I'd accompany him to the bay to help him attach something to his truck from one of the places he worked on (he's an independent contractor or something of sorts . . . he builds stuff). So, we did that, and went on around three stops for him. As I mentioned before, he talks a lot. We got home around 1:50, so my Mom fixed us up some lunch and then I went off with my friend Matt to play tennis.

Tennis rocks. I've noticed my serves are getting stronger because I've been practicing, but also my natural hits have a lot more control. Even though I've gotten stronger at hitting, I've never had a use to hit extremely hard forward or backward handed, but rather overhanded . . . I guess I still suck. I can go all kung-fu hard hitting on the wall though, so I guess I still have a few style points, right? Fun fun! Go tennis!

I drew my first two anime characters today. They were sketchy of course. I drew them on my math book after I was done frying my mind on problems. I'm studying pretty hard for the test on Wednesday because I'm not that comfortable with this chapter. I had a nightmare last night about the Spanish test I recently took and the Algebra II Test I'm going to take. It was weird, but it was also the apotheosis of student nightmare. For some stupid reason, on every single Algebra II question I'd fill in an answer in the preterite tense of Spanish, regardless of what I was actually thinking. Worst thing of all was I was dreaming in a state of semi-realization and consciousness, so it was extremely frustrating. I think I even knew the answer to quite a few questions on the test, but my pencil wasn't writing what I wanted it to. I'm going to throw it away if it starts acting up on Wednesday.

Well . . . maybe I won't throw it away, because it was the pencil I used to draw those anime characters today. That's one thing about me, I use things till they drop. It's not that I'm cheap, but I know exactly how long something will last . . . at least with most things. I can't say I know everything about relationships, because I'd be a lying fool. You would be too. Every relationship is different. I heard a quote one time that I really liked, and I believe it to a certain extent. It said something along the lines of, "Everyone we see or hear, regardless if we like that person or not, influences us in one way or another." I suppose that's how styles and ideas are spread, and how one chooses to act, but I'm sure it has many exceptions. In terms of a one-sentence theory though, that's a pretty good piece of knowledge.

Let's see if I can match it . . . Here's my one word piece of knowledge for today:

Have a great day everyone.