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Well, there's been a serious lack of updates recently. I've been meaning to write about a lot of things, but life's been hectic recently. Whenever I'm not busy I'm either writing or playing Super Princess Peach. However, I'm on spring break now and I have no homework (aside from registration for state but I'll get to that later), so I have plenty of time to write a journal entry now. However, for the sake of making this readable I'll do my best to condense my rantings...

First, as embarrassing as it is for me to talk about it, I've been having a lot of weird dreams recently. There was one where I found a time bomb in an alarm clock in an office building I was infiltrating (ninja style!). However, I ended up setting it off. It wouldn't have been a problem except, as it turned out, my mom worked on that floor. For some reason she picked up the clock and it stuck to her hand. It exploded, but later I found out she was fine... There was a lot more weird stuff in that dream as well including my father and I beating Khirima (from Adventurers! webcomic) to a pulp, my dad with a wooden sword and me with a pair of small sea shells... I had another (just last night in fact) in which I for some reason thought I had to cut off one of my sister's legs (and both of mine as well, but I realized I was wrong about whatever it was before I did that...). My sister was fine with this, but when I found out it had all been a miscalculation on my part I felt really bad about it. I appologized and she told me it was no big deal, but I still felt really bad about it. taking into account that dreams are supposed to be your subconcious sorting out your life, I've been considering the latter one. As I see it, it can be interpretted a number of ways and it still makes a lot of sense. Then again, I may just be worrying too much...

Second on my list, I went to the regional science fair on Monday and Tuesday (Grame was also supposed to go, but the teacher lost his paperwork and blamed it on him). My grandmother (the crazy, rich (I use the term rich fairly loosely here) grandmother as oppose to the religous fanatic grandmother) bought me a DS game, Super Princess Peach, specifically for the trip to regional. On Monday we simply did set up. I was one of five contestants in the Computer Science category (I did my experiment on overclocking), and none of my competitors looked that difficult, except the guy next to me. I had been really afraid considering the two HUGE binders he had which were both full of code. However, as I understand it, he just got the code off the internet... Well, on Tuesday my DS decided to be evil and ran out of power before the fair even began. It was an all day thing, so I had almost nothing to do for the rest of the day (I had also brought a notebook but I couldn't write or draw while the bus was moving as everything looks so messy. Then there was that book I brought but by the time I got around to it it was already too dark to read). With the lack of anything to draw my attention I got incredibly nervous, but everything turned out alright after all. I got second (Ironically I was beaten by that guy with the compiler...) and earned fifty dollars out of the deal (which pales in comparison to his 350) so I suppose it was okay... I've gotta register to go to state science fair now though. Well, I don't HAVE to, but I have a friend going who I would feel bad about abandonning and it would look good onmy college resume, so I'm going anyway.
However, when I came back from regional I had a ton of work to do... I had to make up two tests as well as the something like five others that were already scheduled for that day, and there was plenty of homework to finish as well. To make things more annoying, my biology class apparently not only had no teacher (she went with us to regional), but no subsitute as well. Come to think of it, that's not that bad. I'd hate to think what they would've done with no supervisor... And I had a great salad at Black Eyed Pea during the trip...

Thirdly, back on the subject of school, I have to write a play for Theatre Arts. Well, I have to help write one at least. Problems abound, however. For example, the subject matter is a schizophrenic girl who kills all her classmates and then commits suicide. Hikaru, if you're reading this, please don't post a reply yelling at me. I am well aware of everything you have to say. You've said it before.

Lastly, I'm still attempting to come to terms with 'the real world' as I call it. The real world, however, means something a bit different in my vocabulary than in the dictionary. When I say I'm trying to come to terms with reality (AKA 'The real world'), it doesn't mean I'm trying to get my mind out of my fantasy world. That's never going to happen. Instead, it refers to me trying to realize that I suck at drawing and I'm never going to get any better if I don't funnel more time into practice. It also refers to my overall laziness with not writing or practicing with 3-D animation, both of which I should do far more often than I do. Instead, I just spend my time surfing the internet or playing videogames. I suppose it's not competley horrible, though. I do learn a lot that way...

I'm sure I have more, but I can't think of it right now, so it's not getting posted. Well, that's my entry for now. Hope it wasn't too long. I'll try to update more regularly now that I'm a bit less busy.

Skara: What's wrong with you? There was this nice long period of almost a month without an angsty journal entry post from you, but then you have to go and break it...

Well that's too bad for you. I actually enjoy writing these things.

Skara: That's a large part of the problem.