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Ferndale is crazy good

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on November 4, 2005
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Big football game last night against Anacortes. We won, which isn’t as surprising as it used to be. This means we’ll be hosting Cedarcrest on Tuesday in the first game of the playoffs. To my knowledge, this is the first time we’ve had a home playoff game in years. The Tiger football squad has only lost one game (and that was to the undefeated Ferndale Golden Eagles), putting us in the number two seed going into the playoffs. I think we have a really good chance this year.

Not much else going on. We had a half-day today, which I totally wasted by doing nothing. Well, that’s not completely true. I warmed my computer chair up quite a bit, which I suppose counts as something. But nothing productive, which is what counts, I suppose.

If you haven’t gone and seen Charley’s Aunt, you must go see it this weekend! Tonight and Saturday night are the last two performances, so get off your bum and go watch history in the making! Okay, not really. But it is really good. Seriously.

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More on why I hate whiners

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on September 17, 2005
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Don’t you hate it when someone complains about something but doesn’t do anything to fix the situation? Take this small group of freshmen in band at the football game Friday. One is a trumpet (sits right behind me) and the other is a clarinet (right in front of me). The whole time–and I mean the whole time–the two are talking back and forth about how stupid the game is (we won 69-7, so I suppose the futility of it all on the part of the opposing team might have accounted for that), how much they hated band, and how it sucked sitting in the cold playing pep band music for home football games. I was tempted a few times to turn around, smack the trumpet player and tell him to stop bitching about what he can’t change. It bugged me that much.

It’s the assholes–I mean kids–like him and his buddy that make band no fun. All the people who provided all the fun times have graduated, my class has one or two people who measure up to their predecessors, and all the underclassmen–to put it bluntly–suck in many ways. Band is no longer as fun as it was when I was a freshman. Of course, I try to make what I can out of it, but I’m not the type to be, as the drum major my freshman year put it, en-THU-siastic. I mean, I clap along with the cheers, but it’s really, really hard to be engaged in the game when surrounded by whining freshmen and sophomores.

Other than that, things seem to be fine. School is going swimmingly, with the exception of calculus, in which I’ve procrastinated so much with the homework that I’m sure to sink like a rock once the end of the quarter rolls around. I hate busy work. Physics is exactly the opposite. It may be challenging, but I understand it and can actually do the problems (mostly because the book explains it). Nothing to report on the rest of my classes.

Now, to finish working on my UW application…

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Back to school

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on September 4, 2005
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School starts on the seventh. Woe is me! I haven’t finished my summer reading yet. David Copperfield, if anyone’s interested. Maybe I’ll go find a Cliff’s Notes somewhere…

In other news, the first football game of the season (high school, that is) was Friday. Pretty fun. I went with my sister and talked with a few friends about whatnot. We won, which was surprising. Maybe we’ll have a good team this year. Burlington-Edison hasn’t won the state championship since 1987, I believe. But we went to state two years back and held our own. I hope this year is the same.

To all who have me on Star Trek simms: I’m sorry if I haven’t posted that much. With school starting in less than three days, I’m a bit swamped. I hope to be back at normal posting levels soon, once things settle down and I don’t have to worry about this stupid summer reading. Gar.

A few days ago I went to the local Bargains Galore and bought Deus Ex: Invisible War for five bucks. I almost felt like I was robbing the nice little old lady behind the counter. However, I found out that my computer doesn’t like Deus Ex. The Eidos tech support guy said it was my soundcard (of all things), so my dad went out and bought me a new one at Office Max (not quite the one I wanted, but pretty much the same), but the game is still being annoying. I know it’s not the game (looks as good as new), so it means that my computer is at fault. Probably the video card. That video card has a pretty poor track record. But I don’t have the $200 to get a new (good) one, so here I am, stuck playing Deus Ex and having it freeze on me every five minutes for no apparent reason.

Sometimes I wonder if the computer gods hate me.

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Friday night lights

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on October 23, 2004
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Well, Homecoming week was great. The class competitions were very, er, competitive and everything went off good. The lip syncs were the best in the time that I’ve been here and probably the best ever (except for the sophomores, but the fact that they’re sophomores excuses them). For those of you who don’t have the faintest idea of what I’m talking about, at the Burlington-Edison Homecoming assembly, all the classes perform skits to the music theme they’re given. For instance, this year’s seniors got “One-Hit Wonders” (including “Ice Ice Baby”, “Blue”, “The Macarena” and others). These skits range from hilarious (like this year’s seniors) or just pitiful (like last years sophomores). B-E people, you know what I mean about the latter. And then there was the Homecoming game. Awesome game until the second Sehome touchdown. Very close game even so. The first quarter passed with no score, very good defense on both sides. Second quarter, we got a field goal. It was mostly downhill from there. Sehome scored a touchdown, then we scored a touchdown, and they scored again. So in the last two minutes, it was 14-10 Sehome, B-E had the ball 30 yards from the end zone. They passed all four downs and only the skin-of-the-teeth fourth down pass was completed. That gained us about 10 or 15 yards for a first down. They did the exact same thing, only this time, we botched all four passes and Sehome got the ball on downs. They didn’t score again, but it was too late for us to do anything about it. You know, I think the last time B-E had a really good football team was back in the ’80s when we last won the King Bowl (the Washington State championships). And when Saxton Shearer left last year, well, it’s doubtful we’re going to state this year.

In other news, the marching band had a good parade and I read an 820 page book in about 5 days. No, really, nothing else has been going on. Except eating food, which I shall do right away ’cause it’s getting hard to hear the radio over the sound of my stomach growling.

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Those Raiders will learn…

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on October 2, 2004
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Das Boot turned out to be a great movie, although the ending was really sad. But I won’t tell about it so all you people who haven’t seen it won’t know the ending. Another bummer: my new car stereo doesn’t work. Major bummer. Although, my uncle tried it out on his car and it worked. So maybe it’s just something we did wrong in hooking it up. Strange. Well, we’ll get it working eventually. Other than that, today was a great day. Got to stay home alone, watch TV, try to do the practice PSAT I have, etc. Next week’s going to be packed. I have a couple after school drama things, as well as a Key Club meeting on Monday, and a bunch of other things I can’t think of off the top of my head. And the week after that I have some more drama things (and a dinner play) and the PSAT. Fun. Well, now I’m depressed about Das Boot. Oh well. Fun times. Yeah. I’m kinda bored. I’m so bored I don’t even have anything pointless to ramble about. Guess I’ll just play the computer. Hehe, those Raiders will learn to fear Cody and the Broncos…

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