Contentment?....Joy?....Definitely not lackidaisicalness....

Today is quite the good day. I found out about making it on Wheat team (working with Janet, Angie, Nate, Gary, and my good friend Emily) and that I'm giving Talk 6 for TEC 67. I'm very, very, very excited for this TEC. I only know of a couple people from Blue Earth so far who have decided to go through (at least they better send in their apps), but hopefully there will be a couple more yet before the deadline.

** Redundancy Alert for Shayla** My school is randomly 2 hours late. They gave us 2 days like that this year, and the first one was in September. We have a homeroom to deal with registration for the first 25 minutes that we're there, so my first hour class is only about 25 minutes long. In other words, I only have to deal with advanced algebra for less than half an hour. I'm very happy about that.

Shayla asked me tonight how life was, and I really felt good about my response. My life right now is great. I can't think of a single thing that I feel is going wrong, and everything just seems to go pretty smoothly. Nothing is too redundant or horribly boring in school, TEC is going to come faster than anyone expects, my relationships are pretty sound, and the weather was fantastic this week. The only negatives I can see in the near future are the projected storms we might get this weekend and the other involves my sleeping pattern. I screwed it up this week, but it hasn't had too much of an effect on me yet.

Lent is different for me this year, even though I never usually give something up for the season. I decided not to give anything up, and instead I took something on. Seeing as I'm very inconsistant in reading my Bible, I decided to make that my daily habit during Lent in hopes that it will carry on after the season is over. So far so good, but 2 days doesn't say much. Everyone who gave something up for Lent is definitely in my prayers because it can be very, very tough.

On that note, I'm sending my content, joyous self back upstairs. I slept for a little while already, but Leviticus is always a good way to put yourself to sleep.

A Funny Thing Happened....

I went to see Melissa Oswald in a play last night called "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum." It was absolutely hilarious. Waldorf's website describes it like this:

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" by Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, and Larry Gelbart, is a musical comedy about the trials and tribulations of a slave, Pseudolus as he schemes to find a way to earn his freedom. Filled with chases, courtesans, soldiers, and a gallery of off-the-wall characters, "Forum" is a slapstick loaded, hilarious musical comedy that will entertain and amuse everyone who knows how to laugh. With such familiar numbers as "Comedy Tonight," and "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid," the show boldly proclaims, "we shall employ every device we know in our desire to divert you."

On that note, I'm really bored. I stayed out at Oswald's last night, and I was up all night playing Black Hawk Down with Tommy, Andrew, and Branden. I think I fell asleep for good at about 6:30 or so. Good times....

Short, sweet, and pointless

I have a bad cold (i.e. headache, sore throat, runny nose). Thankfully there's no fever or much other pain. I did think I was going to die when I coughed this morning right after I woke up. One of the worst pains ever....

Knowledge Bowl was good on Wednesday. I sat out on a bad round. There were a lot of questions I knew that other people didn't (i.e. K-r-z-y-z-e-w-s-k-i).

Duke had a heartbreaking loss on Wednesday. I was going to blog about it, but I ran out of steam. Scheyer had a career high 26 points.

It's bound to be a boring weekend.

Tim's lost a lot of hair in the last 2 years.

What I've learned so far in AP European History

My goal for my blog is to set aside a day every other week to talk about European History with you fine folks. I'll try not to bore you too much.

1. Rats can fall from a height of 50' and land without any harm. They must also chew on things often or else their lower incisors will grow into their brain and kill them.
2. Neil Patrick Harris is in fact a homosexual. I'd heard something to this effect, but I wasn't sure. So no, Barney from How I Met Your Mother is not a good womanizer in real life. He does make a very effeminate king in Joan of Arc.
3. Joan of Arc is a wonderful TV movie....to fall asleep to almost every day in class.
4. The Great Schism is one of the top 3 finest displays of Catholicism's problems. Not saying I have anything against Catholicism, just pointing out how horrible the Great Schism made the Catholic Church look. I mean, honestly, two "popes" along with the real one?
5. The French were crazy in the Middle Ages.
6. The French are crazy now.
7. Jen laughs really loudly. Whenever her and I are actually quiet during class, everyone else is talking and vice versa.

I give up on thinking of random things now. Mmmmm....Black Plague....