I'm more me than u r

Some jewish guy, plays trombone, likes strategy games, and how things came about,and prob some other stuff I'll think of late.

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

OK its me I haven't had any time in awhile I finally have some not enough to cover everything thats been missed but I'll cover a bunch.
So first off I didn't post Friday or Saturday having been in San Antonio competing at Academic Decathlon state.
Well Friday started with an essay best essay I've written for AD I got 725/1000 and didn't finish the last sent. Normally I get 550 to 650. Then we went back to the hotel for awhile, and then later that night we were one of the last people to do Interview and Speech. So I go in to do my Interview and I get asked a few questions like what are your values, what is the value of competition in society I answered somthing like competition is what drives people to also improve themselves, otherwise people become happy as they are and cease to try and improve I took a bit longer and not as artful language. I had some mistakes but it was pretty good. Then the final question one that should be really easy but nearly killed me. . ."If you were in our shoes what question would you ask yourself, and what would your answer be?" We were told to pause 3 sec before answering it must have been 3 min before I answered, I always try to keep creative answers to questions like mine, but I asked,
What was the greatest impact in your life?
and my answer was my parents (how bland is that, I even paused again before giving my answer) so then I said how my mom pushed me and that one of my personal flaws was I"m not competitive so when I get to college I'm going to call home and be like mom I need some more motivation. They all laughed and then I went on to how my dad did the rest. The guy made a special comment to me when I was done about always being competitive I thought I had screwed up, but. . . They obviously loved I got a silver in Interview, and a score of 973.3/1000
Next was my speech the speech was awesome then the impromptu part, 2 options were bogus so I went with the only one left name some lesson you were taught by an elderly person, I had just my grandparents and that would be the same thing they had heard all night,so I decided my rabbi would be elderly, it had a wonderful intro, and then I realized I was going on and on and never got to my point so I went to get to it and I froze for like 20 sec it was horrible since the whole thing is only a 1min 30 sec-2 min, anyways I recovered decently not at the level of my speech but still decent and ended with a 953/1000
Ok we ate at The Magic Time Machine, Kieran. . .well was Kieran restrained but himself, so yea ya'll should ask about that.

Saturday the next morning, was the test day
We took 7 tests
Math went pretty well out of 25 questions I had about 9 left when they shouted 5 min so I went down and bubbled B D I had time to check 4 of them and they were all already guessed right awesome I ended up getting 14 right which tied for 2nd
Then was Music that was decent got 700
We got a 30 min break then went to Economics I thought it went ok but I got a 720 and tied for a silver with the same guy I tied for in math he turned out to be the top C in the state.
Finally was my thought worst test Social Science yea that was bad, I got a 5?? or 6?? somthing
Ok long break for lunch
Now was lang/lit I thought it was decent
The Art test I thought went pretty well. . .but umm it was my lowest score
Finally was Superquiz/Astronomy Written that was the only score that was much lower than expected
Ok So for Superquiz relay we get 5 questions while everyone stares at our backs and we see right then if were right or wrong its worth 60 points a question. I only got the 1st and last and never even answered the 3rd I was debating and the 7 sec came too soon as I put my pencil to circle the right answer the bell rang.

Ok so that night we went to Dave and Busters and we hadn't been told any of our scores yet and one of our coaches had seen all of them when asked to smile she wouldn't and she just said our scores had been static from regionals they hadn't changed enough, we had like 2000 point lead on our rival school, so that really worried us. We all assumed we had lost, and some one said 13 was unlucky this was supposed to be our 13th time to win state in a row. So I of course was telling him 13 was lucky so I decided to explain how in Judaism 13's lucky with the Bar Mitzvah age and all, so then since they were always scape goats and hated since we called it lucky it had to be unlucky, so now its remembered as an unlucky number. O and that reminds me of earlier on the bus Kieran's an aetheist and I'm Jewish and Sarah as well as everyone else is on the bus is Christian. . .ok so Sarah says somthing about how she believes all people can do anything any other person can do but its easier for some people, and Kieran responds well can you fly, and she goes no no one can fly and he goes ok well Jesus walked on water can you walk on water, (Kieran's one of those smart alec kids 20 times smarter than any one else but he's still fun) any how so I"m incredibly quiet, but i but in with "ehh, he cheated Jesus used floatees" the whole back of the bus started cracking up and was like no one else could have said that and it be funny. Ok so you probably had to be there for it to be funny
So then yea I think everyone heard how our Dave and Busters thing and the other thing I made sure not to tell other people managed to spread I even had a teacher ask me about it so if you want to know about somthing that I either told you I couldn't say or just somthing about AD most likely if youre willing to ask me I"ll answer since I figure there are a pretty limited number of people who would ask or questions I wouldn't answer, just don't get offended if I don't.
OK so then was Sunday the award ceremony got home 6:00 had a bonfire burned a bunch of our study stuff o and I decided I was going to give. . .o its supposed to be a surprise, but lets see I made a list of people I wanted to take with me to help in each subject they are. . .
Lets see
essay. . .hmm thats hard I'ld probably drag with me Sara or Zoe which ever would be more willing to help
Interview. . . hmm. . .well since I metaled I'll just be happy with where it was
Speech/Impromtu. . . Rodrigo
Math. . . umm yea lets leave that one to me, I also metaled
Music. . . Kevin
Economics. . . umm once again I'll leave that one to me, my last metal
Social Science . . .umm hmm. . .just about anyone would be an improvement so umm. . .Kristin she's one of those people thats a lot smarter than me, but much more rounded, plus even if she doesn't like to be around me I still like having her around
Lang/ Lit . . .also bad area for me, but umm whoever Zoe or Sara I haven't already taken
Art. . . hehe Diedre
Superquiz. . .Robert

Ok then yesterday umm yea I actually wrote somthing I kept short that was incredibly difficult as you guys can tell I don't like to type short things escpecially when theres a lot I want to say and yea. . .so ok

Alright well to finish up Spring trip is coming up, and I got this not so cool review of my thoughts on Kristin I went from going as her boy friend, to going as a friend, to now umm. . .well she once said anyone who's not an enemy is a friend,and I don't think I'm even a friend at the moment. yea that sucks I hope that changes in 3 days but hehe yea right the only change I've ever seen happen that fast was a negative one

OK so no 1000 excuses, but alright those finishing things
smile of the day. . .really weird actually walking to the band hall knowing the moment I got there I would feel too guilty to be happy,
thought of the day. . .o you didn't read that umm. . . I won't screw up again. . .that was in there
ok I think I'm the only one that wants more time between now and Springbreak for a couple of reasons. I could mention them, but I won't right now
So everyone yea don't be as exhausted as I am and umm. . .keep hope even if its a false one, it will carry you to the next real one, so smile somthing can always go right, unless things are that perfect than you don't need any special good note.

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