Sunday, October 7, 2001 7:03 PM

I’ve been having a very bad weekend. Today wasn’t really bad, but it wasn’t really good either. I played some Starcraft, slept, and did a little homework. Tomorrow is my birthday. I’m feeling bitter and resentful right now and I’d like to vent but I’m afraid I cannot. Good day.

Monday, October 8, 2001 11:00 PM

Good thing I didn’t have high expectations for my birthday. I might have been disappointed. Honestly, I don’t expect anyone to remember my birthday whose birthday I wouldn’t remember, so I’m ok. Totally unrelated to the previous statement, my mom forgot my birthday this morning. We picked up Matt (because we carpool and all) and he got in the car and said happy birthday and my mom said “Oh, its your birthday! Happy birthday.” I was like “asdf.” At school, nobody remembered my birthday. After the school day was about half over, I just started randomly telling people that it was my birthday, because I knew there was no way they would ever remember. That worked ok. Amanda was sick. That really, really, really stunk. Yeah. So after I got home, I got online and started my homework. I played some Starcraft. I had a good time. I got offline at about 4:30, and a few minutes afterwards, Cari called me to wish me a happy birthday. That was really nice of her, and I was touched, no kidding. I then took a nap. When I got up, -- nevermind. I’ll omit the rest of the day. I’m going to go play Starcraft now.

Tuesday, October 9, 2001 7:13 PM

I’m restless and upset, and I’m annoyed that I can’t write about why in my journal.

In other news, my day today was pretty bad. I’m totally lost on the math stuff we’re doing, so I’m going to have my brother explain it to me sometime before the test next Monday. I feel like the homework process in math hinders my learning, because points are collected on most homework assignments. If I have problems with an assignment, I can’t finish all the problems on my own. So I just copy them out of the back of the book and pretend I knew what I was doing to get the points. Then I get my brother to explain it to me. I really wish I could just admit I had problems with the assignment and get help without hurting my grade. Bah.

I just finished my milestones about half an hour ago. I started on them when I got home. So that’s about three hours and fifteen minutes. After I finish this journal I’m going to write my Greece poem and hopefully have time for a game or two of Starcraft.

Ack. My AOL Instant Messenger isn’t working.

Oh, I’ve got to study for German. We’re having a vocabulary quiz tomorrow. I really need good grades in that class.

I’ve got an online forum linked from my page. It’s visited by a few of my friends and a few people I don’t know. Its kind of weird, because they actually visit it on a pretty regular basis. With every other forum I’ve created or seen created by a classmate, people just visit once or twice and then never again. I’m proud or something.

I just read a news article online from the BBC that says that “Jedi Knight” is a choice on the religion census poll in Britain. There was a chain letter or something that told people to encourage the census people to put it on there, and enough people did that they did. That’s funny or sad, however you want to take it.

I asked Adam to write my Greece poem for me, just to see what he’d come up with (I wasn’t serious. Of course not.), and he wrote a very nice poem that went something like “THEY HAD A LEASE ON GREECE BUT IT EXPIRED SO THEY RETIRED NOW THEY LIVE IN NURSING HOMES AND SOME ARE IN DUNGEONS, CURSING TOMES”

Oh, by the way, I have a great friend named Steven. I know him as puma, because that was his screen name on Starcraft, where I first met him. He went to the Indiana Academy with my brother. I tell him all sorts of stuff that I can’t tell other people. He’s just generally a great guy. And he’s been complaining that I never mention him in any of my journals (which I put on my website, for those who are not aware), so there you go puma.