I didn't get to go swing dancing tonight . . . well, it's not that I physically wasn't able to go, but rather I made the choice that it wouldn't be quite as much fun if hardly any of my friends were going. There's some sort of play tonight at the highschool, and most of my friends that go swing dancing participate in either the play or stagecraft, or want to go see the play, so that makes it hard to find good company. I suppose I could have gone and just danced with random people, but it's not the same thing really. I like dancing and learning with the people I love to be around.

I'm pretty sore right now . . . I think I' going to lay off weight lifting till Monday. Even though I didn't lift after school today, we lifted in P.E. so my muscles are aching. I've certainly gotten a lot stronger, and my parents both say I look great and all . . . (My Mom said she notices because my shirts have stretched at the shoulders, which makes me happy . . . she's good at noticing . . . my Dad said that I look much stronger . . . cool cool!) Only problem is the slogan - "no pain, no gain". I guess that's true for more than one thing.

My family and I went out to dinner tonight. Admist talking, they asked me what I plan on doing tomorrow (a good conversation starter). I told them I'd probably end up playing tennis for as much of the day as I could, because I'm trying to get better and I feel like being outside tomorrow and frolicking about in the sun and such. My serves are getting "mean". Heheh. Anyway, I told them in the evening I might want to go to a movie and then walk over to a restaurant for dinner. They asked me if I was going to go with a date, and I said no. I wouldn't mind going with someone, I'd like to in a way, but at the same time I don't know who. Perhaps I'll invite a few friends, and it'll be a friendly thing, but if I do so then I defeat the point of going out and taking a night off. I just feel like relaxing and having a nice evening to myself, a movie, a relaxing dinner . . . Maybe I'm a romantic.

I finished watching the entire Love Hina series for a second time. Wonderful . . . there's certain points in it where even the great manliness inside of myself fluctuates, and I feel a tenderness in my heart. It's a good story . . . but I've talked about it so much it's not really necessary to elaborate on anymore.

I would say today went great, but it seemed as though a lot of people were in a really down mood.

This morning, I talked to Tom. Things went well, it seems as though there was no problem what so ever. I think he was lying to me, he wouldn't look at me in the eyes. Despite that though, I made it clear that neither of us know anything about each other, and that everything is misinterpretation of hearsay from other people, and that I would be disappointed if things turned out as I heard in the gossip. Made me happy that we made progress.

The day went out on its usual course, except in drafting I went on a quest to find a birthday card for Mr. Roa . . . he's such an awesome teacher (!), Mr. Sumner's was full of awesome German poetry translations, I chatted with Mrs. Larkin a bit before brunch . . . the usual. Brunch wasn't anything interesting, but lunch was social so I'll talk about it.

Carol seemed depressed for some reason, it bothered me. I want to know her better.

Katie has been hugging me a lot lately. She's a wonderful person, and the best thing is that we have an understanding that we're friends, and that we can slow dance a last song at a dance together because we both want to dance, and because we're good friends, and it doesn't mean anything "special". People might assume, but we know.

Jasmin still hasn't called me back since her phone cut out.

People understand that I'm into Eastern Culture, it's cool . . . someone asked me to say something in Korean today, so I said, "an nyung, ha se yo" - it means "hello, how are you doing?" Of course, they asked what it meant, so I said, "se rang ha yo" which translates to "I love you". I'm glad nobody understood, it makes it hundreds of times funnier for me.

Anyway, I'm going to get going, I'm sore and tired, and it's 11:05.

Good night my friends.