boredom is the spice of life

OK, so as any sane people in the world now, my little title there is entirely false, unless you consider it in the fashion of trying to avoid boredom and thereby making things interesting. Ah, another philosophical back alley that we have wandered into. Well, enough of such nonesense for the time being. There are several things worthy of note:

1. My GPA is currently riding safely at a 4.0--Harvard here I come!

2. As of yesterday my room has been both painted and, more impressively, cleaned--took me no less than three 39 gallon plastic garbage bags to get everything out of there, good god!--I quite like the paint, which is blue, and the new furniture arrangement.

3. I have no homework tonight, but unfortunately my dad is not working on the cadaver (sp?) tonight so the one time that I would actually be able to attend it will again not be possible, oh well.

4. HiTN v5 is coming along splendidly as I have decided to work exclusively on the Kami-Zalena story line for the time being. After that I will proceed to Crion-Ria, I should think, and save Ki'ara for last, but I must think on that matter; I have plenty of time as I am only ~30 pages into this story line which promises to be a good 600 pages or so when I am done with it--reading All Quiet on the Western Front in English is making this much easier for me, but I would have likely referred to it anyway.

5. And, most importantly of all, my birthday is on Saturday, but that is only really of interest to me because a) it means that I will only be 1 year away from being able to drive and having something of a social life, and most importantly, b) it means that in 4 days I WILL BE GETTING AGE OF EMPIRES III!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alright, enough nonesense for the time being. There is little else of not worthy of reporting, I don't think, other than I have been so desperate to distract myself that I have nearly beaten Sly 3--god, I don't know what ever drove me to pick it up--and now that I have nearly beaten it and at the same time tired of it, I am working on beating the living daylights out of Age of Mythology, which I am finding to be a much more appealing game now that I realize that the graphics really are nowhere near as dismal as my initial impressions of it were, or my memories of it, I should say. I much prefer to play as the Norse and build a large army of wolves to slaughter everyone with their insane speed and high attack. The Atlanteans hold the most favor with me when I choose to play primarily with human soldiers and siege engines, though in actuality I think that the Greeks really are stronger--Hypaspists tend to make mincemeat of all enemy infantry and Toxotes are especially nice in large numbers.

Oh, and the High School Ski Team is actually a letter sport, which means we will actually be racing, and I find that to be quite enticing as I might actually manage to get a varsity letter this year; we shall have to see just what the requirements for it are. I suppose I am not particularly good, but then I don't think that there ought to be that many people from school who are any better. The new skis should help; I wish it would snow for I desperately wish to try them out sometime soon.

Well, I have yet to defeat the Norse part of the AOM campaigne (yes, I enjoy spelling 'campaign' incorrectly as it seems more... pompous) so to that I shall dedicate myself for the rest of the evening, unless I prove to be exceeding in skill and manage to complete it--well, in actuallity I am about half complete with it already, but I have not touched the Egyptian one as of yet, nor the Atlantean one, so there will be those to attend to.

catch up

dang cc is over and now i don't know what to do w/ myself. got my pr at stoughton: 20:27 which kicked ass, as did finally beating alex, and i beat luke too, but he did have a busted arm. So, that's over and done with.

next bit of noteworthy news was that i somehow fucked the hell out of my english test and got a fricken B on it so now i'm pissed and am determined to pass everything this year with an A and that means i'm actually gonna work now. yes, this means i will actually study for tests for more than 5 minutes from now on.

joke listing (mostly from latin class):

ralph: define easy
boyd: your sister!

blinson: so, think of a preposition as anything a plane can do to a cloud
boyd: or a priest can do to a school boy
blinson: what?
boyd: nothing
blinson: remember, this is catholic school
boyd: yeah, that's why it's funny

lorenz: so we have 10 party sets and 5 casual sets
class: sex?!? What???
sam: party sex is the best
adam: casual sex is fun too
lorenz: i said "sets" not "sex"
adam: that's not what i heard

taylor: knock knock, etc. little boy blue/blew
andy: taylor
taylor: no! that's not what it is!
sam: yeah, it's more like little boy blew michael jackson