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Friday, May 17th, 2002
9:40 am	Today's Lesson: Agawam Is Dumb Sometimes I wonder if I'm too harsh with Agawam High School. I ask myself if it's really as bad a place as I always tell myself it is. And then, there are days like yesterday to remind me. It's MCAS time around here, and at Agawam the sophomores just break off and take the tests while the rest of us are cgoing to class. Fourth period is often extended maybe an extra 5-10 minutes to allow them to finish, but usually this doesn't cause a problem. Yesterday, however, was an exception. We were given the usual announcement to stay in fourth period until further notice. The end of fourth period at 10:49 came and went without much surprise. It was after we'd been in there for an extra half hour that made us wonder what was going on. Announcements came on telling us to stay in our fourth period class, and that anybody found in the hallway would be given an internal suspension. You'd think there was a bomb somewhere in the building instead of just the MCAS tests going on. At 11:30, a list of classrooms that could now go to first lunch was read off. My class (81, Jazz Choir) wasn't on the list, but many kids left anyways. Everyone else not going to lunch was to stay in their fourth period class, and as soon as the first lunch kids were finished eating and the lunch ended they were to head back to their fourth period class as well. Once that was all over and done with at 12:00, they announced that second lunch would be from 12:32 - 12:54. Until then, STAY IN YOUR FOURTH PERIOD CLASS. And after second lunch, RETURN TO YOUR FOURTH PERIOD CLASS. Peachy. After second lunch was done with, we headed back down to Jazz Choir. After about 5 minutes, we were finally allowed to move on to our seventh period class. Why we couldn't have gone to our own classes while the MCAS was going on like we usually do baffles me... but most things the administration does nowadays do. I probably shouldn't be compl,aining that 5th and 6th periods got cut out of the day, but anyone who's had Mr. Files knows that spending upwards of 3 hours in his class is enough to drive anyone out of their mind. Moves like this by the administration make me realize why no one respects Agawam High. The teachers don't get paid anything, and all anybody cares about is the sports teams. All the good teachers, the O'Briens and the Josephs and the Gages, are all retiring within the next 2 or 3 years... 5 years from now, the place is going to be an absolute shithole. I pity the youth of this town who are going to have to go through there, and I'm glad I'm getting out before things get really ugly. The family's getting ready to head to Boston for the weekend, to see Jon's graduation from Boston University. When we come back Monday night, I'll only have 2 full days of classes left before final exams. Holy crap. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 15th, 2002
5:02 pm	My Head Hurts I did a funny thing yesterday. I went to the bank, took $78 out of my checking account, whipped out a lighter and burned it right there on the spot. Well, not really. But I did take the AP Physics exam, which basically had the same effect. I don't know what inspired me to do such a thing, in retrospect - I consider it part challenging myself, part wanting to get one of those fancy 'AP Scholar with Distinction" awards, which require that you take five AP tests. I went through my formulas and concepts a few times, got a good night's sleep beforehand, and figured I was all set. Boy, was I wrong. I left about a third of the multiple choice questions and at least 2 of the 7 do-out problems blank because I had no idea how the hell to do them - and the stuff I did give answers for was largely pulling random things out of my ass. I was going in hoping to get a 3, possibly a 4... now if I get a 2, I'll be amazed. Perhaps some of it has to do with last Friday night. At Mario Santillo's 21st birthday part, there was one of those jousting setups like the one at the Big E. I'm not sure whether it was determination, idiocy, or both, but I decalred I would not stop jousting until I'd defeated my brother. I did finally accomplish this feat - after about 10 matches and some ungodly amount of blows to the head. Some people who just showed up at the party as this melee was fiunishing thought I was drunk, and I may as well have been - all the concussions mashed my brain into some sort of paste, which I don't think has fully reformed yet. Moral of the story? I'm dumb. Current Mood: content (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, May 10th, 2002
3:47 pm	Insert Title Here Going to school on Skip Day isn't as bad as I thought. Most of the people in AP Physics were still there for those 2 periods, but got dismissed after that so they could go do whatever it is they were doing. I stuck around with all the other athletes and nerds with nothing better to do, and procedded to do nothing in every class except Jaxx Choir due to lack of students to teach too. Hell, even in Health class (where I'm the only student who isn't a sophomore) we didn't do anything since half the class was taking the AP European History exam. Looking back, I really wished I'd taken that class. Mr. Morse is a great guy, and it sounds like they had a fun time despite having a crapload of work to do every night. Tomorrow afternoon, my working career at Six Flags begins anew. Hopefully it'll be a tad more enjoyable than Retail was. Current Mood: good (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 8th, 2002
3:58 pm	The Dilemma Senior Skip Day... a rite of passage for all high school kids on their way to graduation. I've heard about it in my first three years at AHS, and looked forward to the day when I could not go to school for no reason other than the fact that I'm a senior. Leave it to my class to fuck it up. Being the wonderful student athletes that they are is hindering our plans a bit. A day to have our skip day will be suggested, and a bunch of students will rise up and say, "Oh, I can't skip that day, I have a big game!" I shouldn't mock them, since I think Jon went to school on Senior Skip Day because he had a tennis match... but at least his class only had one day. As for me? In order to accomodate everybody, my class is having THREE Senior Skip Days: this Friday, next Wednesday, and next Friday. And this is just what I've heard about, there could be even more. This creates a problem. If there's only one day where everybody skips, the teachers can't teach anything that day because there's no one to teach it to - everyone's skipped on that one day. But if there's three days, and each day only has about one-third of the students skipping, the teachers can still teach to the other two-thirds - meaning if I skip, I'll miss stuff and have to make it up, which is a royal pain in the ass. What to do? I'm tempted to skip all three days, but in a class like AP Physics where I'm not doing as well this term and you lose points on your lab average every time you're not there, it seems like too much of a risk. Mother is telling me that next Friday I might not even go to school since we're leaving to head to Jon's graduation weekend... so perhaps that'll be it for me. Even if next Friday sounds like it'll be the slowest of the three days. Jon graduates from BU next weekend. I only have 2 weeks of high school left until my final exams. Wow. Current Mood: indifferent (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, May 6th, 2002
9:17 pm	Testing, One Two Three If an AP class is a college freshman level class... does that mean an AP exam is like a college freshman final exam? I've wondered that for a couple years now... and hell, I'm only one year away from finding out. Today was the start of those wondrous tests wherein I try to get college credit that ultimately probably won't mean a whole heck of a lot. Up today: English Literature and Composition, where you read a passage and they ask you a bunch of questions to see if you can actually understand what the hell the author's talking about. Not all that difficult, since it is English, the language I've been speaking my entire life... but it was tedious. Writing essays for two hours = fun fun fun. And thinking that this pales in comparison to what I'll be doing in college next fall just makes me all warm and tingly inside. The good part was that the test carried me through most of the day's classes - after the exam, I went to lunch, then had Health and French and I was done for the day. The only other test I'm taking is Physics, which is next Tuesday - wish me luck, God knows I'll need it. The AP test paled in comparison, however, to what I had to take a few hours later... that's right, a Six Flags training test that I had to pass before I can handle money. Now THAT was a bitch. Somehow, I managed to get a good enough score to pass, meaning I can handle money - which is kind of important when you're running a game. NOTE: I've finally stumbled upon Six Flags' biggest secret... on all of their tests, if "All of the above" is an option, guess it - 9 times out of 10, you'll be right. They're so fucked now... I can almost here the security vans driving out here right now to kick the crap out of me and fire me. Should you find yourself at Six Flags New England sometime between 12:00 and 5:30 in the afternoon either Saturday or Sunday, look for me running one of the games in the center area of the park somewhere. I promise I won't cheat you... much. Current Mood: good (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 5th, 2002
4:58 pm	The Welcome Wagon Just got back from a weekend in Boston. Good times. The family headed down Saturday morning to pay a visit to Jon, who got in a car accident last week. Nothing serious, fortunately. We didn't know what to expect in terms of damage to the car, and fortunately that wasn't all that bad, either. Me, my father and Jon tinkered around with it for a bit and concluded it was drivable after Dad took it out for a spin. The highlight of the weekend, however, was definitely the party at Jon's place on Saturday night. It was, for the most part, what the kids like to call a "sausage party" - all the girls were studying for their finals and couldn't come, so it was almost entirely guys. Although it wasn't the best party Jon's ever thrown from my understanding, we still had a grand old time. We played football in the street, we played football on the PS2, we played Asshole... we drank. I limited myself to the usual Mike's Lemonade and Smirnoff, but even nine of those will get you a little tipsy. Yes, I had nine drinks in one night. Settle down, Mom, I didn't do anything stupid... at least not that I can remember. :) It was a nice way to welcome me to the University, even if things like this will only happen on rare occasions. I got to meet most of Jon's friends (many of which I knew already), and they all seemed happy that I was coming to BU. It'll be nice to come in as a freshman and actually know some people, even if I'll only be known as "Jon Coutore's little brother" to start out. Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Friday, May 3rd, 2002
10:38 pm	What a day, what a day. I'm planning on going to the high school prom next month with Marcie Coogan, an old friend of mine who currently goes to Southwick High... but I have a problem. As soon as I got somebody to go with, I asked around school to see if I could find a place to sit. I tried to get in with with the people in my AP English class, most of whom I consider friends, who are all sitting in a big group of 3 tables. They were having an organizational meeting last night to decide just who would sit where. I wanted to come, but I was told not to because it was going to be all girls and they might get mad if a guy shows up. Flash forward to today... some of the people at said meeting who previously did not had dates came to the meeting saying they had dates all of a sudden. When all was said and done, they didn't had room at their three tables for everybody. So take a wild fucking guess which couple got booted from the group and has to find their own table now. I'm already asking around, and I should be able to find a table or maybe even make one of my own by the time the prom rolls around. I certainly hope I can - I'll look real cool if I take a gril from outside the school to the prom and end up sitting with a bunch of strangers all night. But anyways, getting back to my previous point... People think I'm crazy when I say I have no friends. This just goes to show you what I'm talking about. I honestly don't know what I've done wrong these past few years - I'm friendly to everybody, I talk to people whenever I have things to talk about, and yet I continue to get alienated time and time again. I'm starting to get worried, since I don't know if this will carry over to BU or not. I don't think it will, since everybody will be getting a fresh start for the most part and not be organized into nice little cliques like AHS... but I can't help but wonder. You there, reading the journal... you like me, don't you? DON'T YOU??? Current Mood: blah (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 2nd, 2002
2:30 pm	I apologize for leaving my legions upon legions of readers without any new material for... what's it been, four months? Yeah, that sounds about right. I never really have all the much to talk about - that, and I'm a lazy sack of crap. But I'll try to change that and update this thing with some semblance of regularity from now on. First and foremost, for those of you who haven't heard, I've decided to follow in my brother Jon's footsteps and attend Boston University. Granted, if you'd told me this at the beginning of this school year, I'd probably have smacked you and called you an idiot. My only initial reason for applying there was because Jon went there, and all of his College Bowl friends were telling me I already had a legacy to live up to. But when the school gave me roughly $30,000 in aid, I quickly changed my mindset and decided maybe it was worth a closer look. Upon attending an Open House, I found out that BU actually has a very good program for my major (Marine Biology, or "Biology With a Specialization in Marine Science" as they call it), including semesters taking courses in Woods Hole, as well as Ecuador if you so desired. Add to this familiarity with the campus, love of the city of Boston, and the fact that a number of my friends are going to other schools in the area, and it just seemed like a logical choice. I've spent the last couple of months applying for numerous outside scholarships the school offers, and I'm starting to hear back from some of them. So far I've been awarded 3 (American Legion of Hampden County, Agawam Garden Club, Agawam Junior Women's Club) for a total of $1,400 in outside aid - and there very well may be more coming. Apparently listening to my parents' nagging and slaving over all that paperwork actually did have a purpose after all. Other than that, nothing particularly special - at least that I can think of right now. Which is good, because I imagine you've already gotten bored and gone off to do something else. Don't worry - now that I've actually gotten all that out of my system, tomorrow's update and the ones that follow it will be shorter. Promise. Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Friday, February 22nd, 2002
9:38 pm	Update? Hey, look! I'm updating! WOOHOO! Update! =) Current Mood: high (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 9th, 2002
11:14 pm	Whoops. Wow. I haven't updated this thing for a month. Sorry about that. I do so hate to keep my loyal readers without new material.. and I know there's just so many of you out there... :) I could write a short novel about how my life has gone this past month, but nobody wants that. And besides, I can't think of anything to really talk about right now. So I'll just talk about Christmas. The holidays went well. Among other things, I got clothes, the first two Harry Potter books, a robotic cat... and oh yeah, this funny-looking box and a couple of games for it. That last thing is part of the reason I haven't updated in so long.... :) If I can think of anything else, I'll post it some other time. Right now I have to go sleep. Because that's kinda important, or so I've been told. Current Mood: good (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 18th, 2001
4:28 pm	Sickness To The Rescue! As last night's update indicated, I wasn't too excited about singing in tonight's concert. Fortunately, something happened that's preventing me from going. I got sick. Last night and into this morning, I felt the worst that I've felt in the two weeks that I've been sick. As a result, I stayed home from school today to rest and recover. Sleeping until 11:00 made me feel marginally better, but I still feel kind of lousy. The good part of my getting sick (well, not that I think getting sick is a good thing) is that I can't take part in any school functions for the rest of the day. Which means I can't sing in tonight's concert. :) So, I had about as good a day as a sick person could have. Woo. Current Mood: okay (Comment on this)
Monday, December 17th, 2001
3:11 pm	So Very Blah Wow. So much for the updating-every-day thing. I wouldn't even be updating this right now if it weren't for the fact that Jon just e-mailed me talking about things I'd posted here. It actually gives me the feeling that somebody reads this. :) Suppose it's the least I can do, given the horrific sex acts that'll go on in (Meg's) car over Winter Break... ;) WHOO. - Jon, in the aforementioned e-mail. Mothers, hide your daughters! I've gotten over the deferral by Brown, for the most part. Sure, it wouldv'e been great had I gotten accepted, but looking back I now realize what a long shot that was. Alyssa Goodrow, another girl in my class who applied early to Brown, also got deferred, which makes me feel better considering she has better grades than me. Today was the Renaissance Holiday Party, where all the good little boys and girls who get those cute little gold cards get to go have breakfast. The fact that one of the advisors kept repeating over the microphone that we are all there for "academic excellence and responsibility" made me scoff after hearing it about 20 times. To get a Renaissance card in our school all you have to do is get all C's or better, not be tardy more than once, and not get disciplined at all. That's not really that difficult. A straight C student doesn't strike me as being "academically excellent".... but that's just me. I really need to stop listening to the weathermen around here. They predicted a big snowstorm for today; we got a dusting of snow in the morning, and it's been freezingrain/rain the rest of the day. Granted, if this keeps up and it freezes tonight, the roads will be skating rinks tomorrow, which might lead the town to cancel school... but I'm not getting my hopes up. So the weather is blah, and I'm feeling blah to go along with it. I've been feeling sick on and off for about 2 weeks now, and today was not a good day in this sense. And before you ask, no, I don't have whooping cough. At least I don't think I do. I have to sing in a chorus concert tomorrow night. Whoop-de-do. I hate concerts. Standing up on stage for 45 minutes all dressed up with blinding hot stagelights shining down on you is such</> good fun. The only real reasons I'm still putting up with Mr. Files and Jazz Choir are a) the musicals and b) the 100 on my report card every term. Granted, I have made a lot of good friends through the group, but it's just not as fun anymore. When I go away to college I'll probably forget about choir and join a theater group, if I even do that. Well, I'm off to work. Buh-bye for now. Current Mood: blah (Comment on this)
Friday, December 14th, 2001
11:48 pm	Three Days of Little Cooch Well, I'm back from work, so here's the previously promised update. Put your feet up... this could take a while. Wednesday During English class, Mr. O'Brien was advertising the Shakespeare Society, which was having their first meeting after school. Officers for the year would be elected at that meeting, he said. So, of course, I immediately began to get the idea of running for office. I decided to aim low, since I'm not nearly popular enough to get one of the major offices, so I ran for Scribe (secretary). I even followed Molly Schlagel's example; I made a little sign saying "Matt C. for Scribe" and paraded around all day campaigning. By the time the meeting came, I was beginning to think I might actually win. Yeah. And then I woke up. Losing my second school election in less than a week made me just a wee bit angry, but I got over it. Anyways, after that I counted Toy For Joy money for National Honor Society, and then I had to do my homework and go to work. I got home at 10:30, finished my homework and went to bed. So no time for an update there. Thursday Nothing particularly exciting happened during the day. After school, me and practically everyone else in my AP Physics class stayed after to do some make-up problems, which would earn us extra points on last week's test. I had a haircut at 4:00, and immediately after that I had to be back at the high school for 5:00 to meet with the Academic Decathlon team. We had a celebratory dinner at the Olive Garden in Enfield. Mr. Trahan, being the extravagant person that he is, gave us all engraved medals in honor of our third place overall finish. He also framed the certificates that the AcaDec people gave us. Where he gets all the money for this, I don't know. I made it home for 8:00; just in time to watch Survivor and The Amazing Race. Then I finished my homework and went off to bed. Again, no time for updating. Sorry, it won't happen again. Friday Today started out well enough; I got a 101 on a Physics quiz that I (and pretty much everyone else in the class) thought I was going to do terrible on. I also found out that the extra problems I did Thursday night had boosted my last test grade from a 49 to a 65. I passed! Huzzah! It's really strange to see how I've changed as I've grown. I remember back when I got my first B in third grade, and my first C+ in fourth grade. In both instances I was crushed; it was as though my world was coming to an end. Now I'm to the point where getting 60's on tests doesn't even faze me anymore. It's not that I'm lazy or anything; I'm not particularly pleased with low grades like that, but they don't bother me as much as they used to. But anyway... I headed down to guidance at the end of the day to give Mrs. Cohen my counselor recommendation form for Northeastern. Since I'd heard the new class ranks that included first term's grades had been calculated, I asked to see the list. I had a 96.8 average first term. My overall GPA went up from a 95.4 to a 95.9. And I dropped from 5th to 7th in the rankings. Jon, take note: the class of '02 may be rivaling the class of '98. So yeah, that put me in a lovely mood. And you know what made it even better? Getting home and finding out that Brown has essentially waitlisted me. I know I should be happy that I wasn't flat-out rejected, and I am, but I can't help but feel a little disappointed. I don't want to say I was expecting to get accepted, but for some strange reason, I feel like I was. I guess I thought that after working my ass off for the last 12 years, I could go wherever I damn well pleased. And I still might be able to, but now I won't know until April. Swell. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I haven't updated my journal since Tuesday, If you're still reading this, thank you for making me feel like my endless rambling is actually worth something. Current Mood: indifferent (1 Comment |Comment on this)
3:24 pm	I'm Still Here I apologize for the lack of updates the past couple days. I've been busy. Very busy. No, really, I have. I'll elaborate once I get home from work tonight. But for now, here's a news brief to tide you all over: I got my decision from Brown today. I've been deffered. They're putting my application into the regular dicision pool, reviewing it again, and making a final decision a few months down the road. It's not rejection, so I should be happy. But it's not acceptance, so I'm rather bummed out - if for no reason other than now I have to actually fill out all my other college applications. Damn. Current Mood: blah (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 11th, 2001
6:52 pm	Sickening Scores, Sick People Today in AP Physics, Mr. Gage sat us all down and talked to us about how we need to pay attention in class more, attempt all of his homework problems, etc. Comforting, considering he passed out yesterday's test as soon as he was done. The grades were all over the spectrum - one or two in the 90's, some 10 or 20 points lower... most of them much lower. How'd I do? 49. Frankly, it's better than I thoguht I did. But I'm still not very happy. I have been paying attention in class and doing homework, but the stuff just doesn't "click" in my head. I think I understand it, and come test day I fall flat on my face. Being the nice guy he is, Mr. Gage is offering us the chance to stay after on Thursday and do a couple of other problems to try and boost our grades. I'll be there with bells on, believe me. The whooping cough count at AHS is up to 15, or so I've heard. As mentioned yesterday, if 30 cases spring up the school shuts down for 3 weeks. Today I heard that if that happens, either February or April vacations will be eliminated, or all those lost days will be tacked onto the end of the year. Neither of those prospects sounds too appealing... we'll just have to wait and see how things play out. Speaking of sickness, I don't feel so well myself. Goody. Current Mood: blah (Comment on this)
Monday, December 10th, 2001
5:03 pm	Me Iz Reelie Smrat I've felt myself getting gradually stupider as this year progresses. My first-term grades were good, but not nearly as impressive as those of some of my classmates. I'm finding myself not understanding things in school more often, particularly in Calculus and Physics (I thought I understood what we were doing in Physics, but today's test doesn't seem to reflect that). And just now, I took an IQ test at TheSpark.com and got a below-average score of 86. At this rate, I probably will get accepted to Brown University just so I can flunk out. Current Mood: frustrated (Comment on this)
4:17 pm	Outbreak at AHS Busy day today. - Test day in AP Physics. Yeah, you know how much fun those are. I thought I did okay in the first test, got a 64. Thought I did good on the second test, got a 63. I think I did really shitty on today's test.... should be interesting to see how that turns out. - I lost the "AP Academy Award" for Best Actor in the play J.B. to Craig Jendza by one vote. I could go on for hours about how I think I was a much better actor than him, and how I think he only won because he's so much more popular than I am, and blah blah blah... but no one wants to listen to that. - There were microphones set up all over the room in Jazz Choir today. Apparently Mr. Files was trying to record our singing, as he wants to make CDs to sell as a fundraiser at next week's concert. Tell your friends! AHS Jazz Choir's going platinum!...... or not. The story of the day, however, is the mini-epidemic going around. Pretty much everybody in school's been sick the last couple of weeks, including myself. I thought at first it was just the seasonal flu bug or something along those lines, but I got a letter in the mail over the weekend saying there's been a confiemed case of whooping cough in AHS. Today in school, people were saying that there are eleven people with the disease. Fun. Being the school-loving bunch that they are, kids were also saying that should 30 people come down with whooping cough, the school will close down for a couple weeks. I can't confirm that, considering it came from other students and not teachers/administrators, but it's pretty cool nonetheless. So, umm.... yeah. I've never been good at closing my writing properly. Uhh... bye. Current Mood: good (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 9th, 2001
10:16 pm	Snow Is Nice Snow! Hurray! =) Suddenly it feels like Christmas again. It snowed last night, my parents put up the tree while I was at work today.... 'tis the season, or something. Other than that, pretty much a normal day. My life is so very very interesting, isn't it? I should be getting my decision from Brown sometime this week. Let's hope it's a good one... Current Mood: hopeful (Comment on this)
Saturday, December 8th, 2001
9:28 pm	Agawam: Because Somebody Has To Lose. As previously mentioned, today me and five of my classmates spent the day at Boston University competing in the Bay State Quiz Bowl Classic. 18 teams made up the tournament field; Agawam B (Dave Rosenberg, myself, Nathan Krach) finished 16th, and Agawam A (Jackie Legrand, Craig Jendza, April Rondeau) finished 17th. Our goal going into the tournament was to not finish last. Mission accomplished. :) We had a good time, or at least I did. I got to see Jon and all of his College Bowl friends (and listen to them all make fun of my coat....), which is always nice. I think we did pretty well, particularly Dave, who finished third individually. We even had a "civil war" match between the two Agawam teams in the afternoon rounds, which Agawam B won 185-45. Can't wait to see Mr. O'Brien's reaction to that... I got home around 7:30, just in time to see As Schools Match Wits on TV. Loomis Chaffee was in the process of disembowling Amherst Regional (final score was something like 295-30), and watching it made me almost glad that our team didn't have to go through such a defeat. Had our ASMW team not been beaten by Central in our second match, we wouldv'e had to play Loomis next. And I'm glad Mr. O'Brien's last match ever as Agawam ASMW coach was a close, exciting match against Central than a hideous crushing at the hands of Loomis Chaffee. Mike Hoey-Lukakis is the bestest moderator ever! :) Current Mood: content (Comment on this)
Friday, December 7th, 2001
10:56 pm	Hey, Look! A Title! It's funny how reverse psychology seems to apply to everything I do. Take today, for example. I felt like my 7th period French class was going to be rather not fun, considering I didn't quite do all of the previous night's homework. As it turned out, Madame spent about 15 minutes going over one of the topics I did understand. And when she finally finished, there was a fire drill. By the time we got settled again, there was 5 minutes left in class. Don't you just love when that happens? :) Work went pretty well, too. I got up to the mall early like I usually do to poke around and play down in the arcade. The line for Dance Dance Revolutuion was so short that I actually managed to squeeze two games in before my shift. I'm gradually getting better at it - practice makes perfect, they always say. I enjoy that game, but I don't let my life revolve around it like some people do. When I was in the arcade at 4:30, there were several people there playing the game. During my work break from 7:30 to 8:00, I sat over towards the arcade so I could watch people play - and two of the kids who'd been there at 4:30 were still there. At around 7:55 they finally left. Like Jon said when we were at the mall the day after Thanksgiving, "Those kids have parents who are always wondering where there kids are." Sad, really. It's a good thing that, like Jon, I've already lost ,y faith in humanity. Speaking of Jon, me and my Agawam As Schools Match Wits posse are coming to BU tomorrow to compete in the BSQBC. Who knows? Maybe we'll get lucky and not finish in last! Woo! =) Wow, I'm rather talkative tonight. Is anyone still reading this?...... Yeah, didn't think so. I'll shut up now. Current Mood: chipper (Comment on this)