Another solid day. You know, I really admire the strength of a tree. I'm taking an engineering course this year, and I am amazed at how nature got to be so sturdy all by itself. I bet a man could be at the top of any tree on TMS campus with no danger whatsoever. Anyway, the previous sentences will probably have nothing to do with the entry today. Just random thoughts. Another: I enjoy it when a story is being performed and it's broken up by songs. Wouldn't it be dandy if there was something like that at TMS? Pay it no mind. More random thoughts.

Day 10

Oh snap, we in the double digits now. I woke up at 6:59, which left me plenty of time to wake up again at 7:30 and hastily do my chore before breakfast: popovers, potatoes, an orange and a glass of skim milk. I had History first and had a hard time keeping my mind on the discussion: a recurring theme. We have an essay due Wednesday, and I don't know what I might write mine on. I'll ask Kit later. In my free next I mostly hung out on Digg, saw an awesome smbc comic.

I think I printed out my English essay on paper that was only blank on one side. Facepalm then, but Jack later said he was fine with it. I think I heard him say he was proud of me, which makes no sense. In Precalc, [Redacted. Not a nice thing.] I did that work with Hallie during fourth, helping her through problems but not making them explicit. Lunch was a rehash: pizza and corn chowder, but there was a tasty chicken and broccoli casserole that I'm pretty sure was new.

Taylor and I helped Nick get meter readings during Work/Activities, and we installed energy monitors in the rest of the dorms. Some of my iTunes songs are being odd in terms of skipping and rapidly increasing/decreasing volume: The Answer Lies Within and Dyer Maker come to mind immediately, but there are others. After installing the meters, we all went back to Derby and read the instruction manual to see how to program them so they could output different readouts. It was very boring, and I progressed into that stage where I'm really tired and act quite crazy. Spanish was average; we discussed themes in the reading and had a quiz on the present tense, commands, and gerunds. I could practice a few commands some more.

Apparently Pat fell while talking about bending a birch tree. He was okay during our E. Sci. class (take note of the epic typo: “He was oaky”.), and explained parallax with gusto. That class is going to be like Geometry, in that we have chapter summaries. I sat with Kit, Comfort, Rowan, and Cedar during dinner. Shizuei, Kate, Kiana, and Danny were admiring Cedar the whole time. Rowan kept mentioning Sir Topham Hat, and how Cedar was him. They served more rice and beans (this time they were different- with tomatoes and other vegetables) and fried chicken (Cajun chicken today). For Charlotte's birthday, there were cupcakes. We had two stare-downs before dinner in the classroom, both of which I won. There was a third in the dining hall that I think we forfeited, and apparently I was tearing up and my eyes were turning red. I did not feel anything. Her cupcakes were rich and cold, but the paper did stick to the cake a bit too much.

I headed back to Miles shortly after with Danny and Rosii talking about swears in different languages, and listened to some Wolfmother before starting my Spanish reading. I then typed up my E. Sci. chapter, or at least a rough rough draft, with diagrams to be added in tomorrow, and will get a History outline prepared after writing this at 9:08. I might include the time now in these. Also I might add the date. I have my humble tomorrow, which should be fun.

Check-in later will probably include Kit sternly talking about quiet hours. Alright, let's see what I might write an essay on. (Well, it was Dan [doing check-in] and my keyboard occasionally double hits some keys. Odd. I think we should play Jane Says next, and Dan approves. There's talk of a musical. I don't know if I'll do it or not. Might as well try. A concert and short plays would be better, in my opinion... Lots of time now before lights out and no work to do. I feel a little bad for not having any work while everyone else is slaving away at essays, but I guess I'm just better at managing time. [Holy shit I cannot believe how much of an asshole I sounded like... wow. I am ashamed.] We'll all learn how to do well sooner or later.