Sunday, September 16, 2001 10:32 PM

Today was fun. My grandparents came and that always means good eatin’. We had a huge lunch that I really enjoyed. Then I had a nap. It was a good nap. I fell asleep on the couch. I woke up and ate some more. Then I had to start on my homework. Homework isn’t any fun. But I do it anyway. I worked on homework for about 3 hours and decided I needed a break. I called Amanda and we talked for a while.

Monday, September 17, 2001 3:30 PM

School was no fun at all today. I felt really bad and I was really tired. I still am really tired. I’m going to take a nap really soon. But before I do, I’ll tell you what I think of my classes. First period I have math. Math is sometimes a lot of fun. Math is sometimes really confusing and no fun at all. Math can be my best friend or my worst enemy depending on how much time I spend on it. Next period I have English. English is a fun class. Yah, moving on, third period I have World History, which is a surprisingly interesting class. It also requires a lot of work. Work is no fun. Fourth period I have German. I hate my German class. I utterly despise that class with all of my being. Ick. I’m not going there. I have A4 lunch. I sit at a table with a bunch of people I don’t know very well, because there isn’t anyone I know in my lunch. Fifth period I have Driver’s Ed. which is pretty fun, although I’m really bad at driving. Last time I drove I hit two curbs and ended up with 14/25 points. That wasn’t good. But that doesn’t actually count for our grade in the class, so I’m ok. After that I have Strength class, where we work out and stuff. It’s one of my easier and more fun classes. Seventh period I have Chemistry. Our teacher misses about three days a week. The other day we had a sub while our teacher sat in the science office. Every once in a while she’d come into our room to see how we were doing. It was rather odd. We’ve had some interesting subs in that class. One time we had a lady who was quick to tell us she was from New York, and went on to tell us about the time when three guys tried to mug her as she was getting off the subway. She told us she “cursed them out” and they left her alone. Then she told us about her website, which she couldn’t give us the URL to because it was an “adult site” or something like that. She said she even had her own digital video camera at home. Interesting people they’re hiring as subs these days, eh? Well it’s my nap time now.

Tuesday September 18, 2001 9:55 PM

Hi. It’s sort of late and I’m really tired. I’ve still got a German worksheet to do. It’s worth a test grade. I hate that class. I spent two hours today translating a song from German to English and she’s probably going to give me a “B” on it because she’s mean like that. I’m really not happy with that class at all. I feel like it’s impossible for me to get an “A” in there. Unless she uses a weird grading scale, which would be kind of cool.

I’ve got a lot to do this week. I don’t have much time for Starcraft. No fun at all. I’ve been enjoying Starcraft more and more recently; maybe it’s because I have less and less time to play.

I had a chemistry test today. I think I passed. I think I got an “A” too. Or something.

Math is getting harder. Maybe I should start doing homework. We’ve got a test on Friday. I think I’m prepared. Sort of prepared. I’ll be okay. I’ll study or something.

I’m thinking about being part of the Signature School robotics team. I’d be with Shanky, Phuc, Sibo, and someone else. We haven’t decided who yet. I’m trying to get Will to do it, but I don’t know if he’s going to want to or not. It’d be a lot of fun, maybe. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it now.

I miss my computer. I really should get it working again, but until I do I’m stuck using my moms. That means no programs to speak of.

Websites are fun. I really enjoy reading online forums. One can meet some very interesting people online. One can also meet some of the most ignorant people alive online. But it’s good most of the time.

Did you know that Spiderman has a theme song? Well, he does. My friend Tyler told me about it. You see, we had ISTEP last week and instead of writing an essay for the English part like everyone else, Tyler decided to write out the Spiderman theme song over and over again. Hey, whatever floats his boat. I think its kind of funny, but kind of really sad at the same time. The concept is hilarious. But that means he almost certainly flunked, and he’ll have to retake it next year. I looked up the Spiderman theme song and sent it to Amanda. Just for fun, you know.

One of my favorite websites is a page created by someone who identifies himself as “Taco the Wonder Dog.” Well, he usually identifies himself as more like “TAOC TEH WODNER DOG!!!1” but that’s just his style or something. He makes flash movies and draws cartoons. I like his work because it’s so random. It’s quite funny at times, but at others I wonder what his underlying message is. For example, he has a series called the “crunchy savior” about a little Jesus head sticking out of a jar of GIF peanut butter. The “crunchy savior” goes around battling evil. In one episode, it seemed apparent that Taco was protesting the church’s stance on homosexuality, but it’s never really clear. Some of the other “crunchy savior” episodes like the most recent one are just disturbing. I won’t even try to interpret them. They’re most definitely the most offensive things on his site. Many of his other animations have political themes. Some don’t really have any theme at all, and seem to just be for fun. I don’t know.

I read in our Drivers Ed. manual that you can tell you’re tired when your vision starts going out of focus randomly and you have no recollection of the past few minutes. Hey, guess what. I’m tired. Good night.