I am so sorry that I haven’t updated forever. These last two weeks have the been the last before our play, and I’ve had rehearsal almost every day. Not only that, but my teachers seem to have decided that the best time to give me the most homework I’ve had so far this year on the week that I get less than 4 hours at home a day. Anyway, next Wednesday is theoretically the only day that I will need to stay after school again.

Speaking of staying after school, Wednesday we had to stay until 8:30, so I didn’t get home until 9. I spent the following 4 and a half hours working on my Tomb Book (a project on Egypt for History). That was basically my life for the past week. Even with not having a waking moment to myself, I didn’t get all of my homework done - I had something missing in all of my classes yesterday except for Chemistry.

In other news, the election is in only four days. Of course, I doubt that we will actually know who won for a while after that. While I’m talking politically, today I finally got my Al Weed shirt! For those of you that don’t know, Al Week is running against incumbent Virgil Goode for Congress in Virginia. A political group that I am a part of at school made some shirts that say “Weed for the people” on the front and “Al Weed for Congress” on the back. But, I got mine today, so I can now be one of the dozens of people that roam the halls with identical shirts.

It think that it is absolutely hilarious when there are commercials for HDTV’s on. They show pictures of people surfing on light blue waves and tennis matches, and they look so pristinely sharp and colorful, it makes you want to buy them. But let’s just rewind a bit here: isn’t it my tv - my old cathode ray piece of crap that I’m supposed to hate - making those white crests and sand that look so pleasing? So why exactly do you need a tv that costs 30 times more and burns out in three years, when the tv you have right now would appear to be fine?

I have wondered this for a long time. If you pull out one of your hairs, does it grow back? I know that you have about five million and don’t lose that many, but they must add up. You would think that they must though, because people pluck their eyebrows, and it’s not like a one time thing. Ah well, just another mystery of life, I guess.

Later,

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