Oh. My. God. I ask my dad if I can go over to Brittany's house and he launches into a 2-hour tirade about how I haven't been keeping up on scholarships, how I don't have a plan, how I fail at this, and that, and the othe thing, and on and on and fucking on.

After staring intently on a spot on his forehead for a good five minutes, the rest of my vision began to fuzz out, and I discovered that if I crossed my eyes in a certain way, his entire body would disappear! I was very proud of my achievement, and began to contemplate how I would smash this annoying, talking head into the wall behind it.

Long story short: WASTE OF 2 HOURS. Fuck.

Ironically, after he finished his ranting, I got a letter in the mail from Elder & Leemaur Publishers that an essay I had submitted to them was being published in a book called "Authors of Tomrrow," and that my piece was currently being reviewed for scholarship moola.

In yo face, father

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I've gone on another podcast spree. Why? The election. Why? Because I'm voting in November. It struck me out of nowhere the other day, and I was severly bothered by the fact that I knew virtually nothing about this eleciton, so I decided to remedy the situation with almost 24 hours worth of politically-packed audio (84 podcasts). Now maybe I'll have a productive reason to stay up till the wee hours of the morning...

Funny story. So the wind somehow blew open my front door. I have no idea how this happened. Even when the door is unlocked, it's pretty damn hard to open without physically twisting the handle. Anyhow, a particularly strong gust of wind managed to dislodge the door and swing it open, thus sending the alarm system into a squalking fit.

My poor mother was home alone when the alarm starting blaring, so she locked herself in her room and called the police. I wasn't here when this happened, but according to her she was relatively calm about the whole ordeal. The police came -- 20 minutes later -- and conducted a thorough search of the house. I mean very thorough, as I found my mattress to have been thrown clear of the bedframe when I returned home.

Thankfully no one was actually prowling around my house in the 20 minutes it took for the popo to get to my house. Some very, very bad things could have happened in that timeframe. The hair rises just thinking about it. Ooooh god, what I would to do anyone who laid a finger on my mother.....

I should be writing an editorial for the paper right. Bleh! Muffy over and out....

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Well. Today has been a rather interesting day.

It all started at four this morning, when I went to bed. Then I woke up 2.5 hours later, barely caught the bus, and managed to stay awake for all of school except for maybe 10 minutes of nap in AP Calc. The reason for this outlandish behavior, you ask? It's Iron Man's fault, I swear to god. It all started when I went to Youtube to look up the new trailer for the movie that had premiered during the Superbowl. I eventually found myself on Wikipedia looking up various aspects of the movie, and before I knew it, I had read the entire Iron Man Wikipedia, which in turn had led me to cover all of The Dark Pheonix Saga, The Onslaught Saga, the Brood, Juggernaut, Age of Apocolypse, Ultron, The House of M, The Avengers Disassembled, The Legacy Virus, Cassandra Nova....

Basically the entire Marvel Universe

*sigh* I have no idea why the hell I was so intrigued by all of that. Nerdism taking over, no doubt. Anyhow, upon returning home from school I was gripped by the sudden urge to clean. Once again, why the hell....? I don't know. So now my room is spotless and I'm sitting here at 11pm about to fall asleep because:
1.) I didn't get enough sleep
2.) jump rope practice was ridiculously exhausting.

In the meantime, this is a video from the workshop I did in Tyler, Texas. The tall guy w/black hair is me! (the default cover pic for the video is also me)



Muffy over and out

(I like that, it's catchy)

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The title would be this entry's number. Yes, I spent five minutes counting my entries for no apparent reason. Don't judge me

All the misgivings I expressed in my last entry have pretty much flown away. I still regret that we weren't able to do our best, but trials let me know know not to invest so much into those routines. I want Nationals more than anything now (me and Jesse are doing a pairs now, we're going to effing kill)

Speaking of jump rope...we just did a UW halftime show today. All of today. I woke up at like 9:30, screwed around, left at noon, came back at 6. Fwoosh the day was gone. Oh well I had fun, even though the actual show was ridiculously short for the amount of practice we put into it .

I recently unearthed $120 worth of Best Buy giftcards that I had somehow stockpiled through the years. This is perhaps the only time I have been excited to go shopping. Unfortunately, technology is a wee bit expensive, so $120 is probably good enough or 2-3 things from there, but I don't give a damn because technology is also cool and generally worth the money.

Oh my. I have also gotten a Facebook. It is dedicated to all the jump ropers I have met on my travels about the country, because they're the reason I made it in the first place. You could think of it as Facebook for jump rope purposes. Is it as whorish as Myspace? No, but it lets people stalk you a lot better.

Anyhow I seem to be rambling at this point. I had my quarter-year anniverary with Brittany yesterday. Yes, a whole three months. Now only 23 years and 9 months more and I can catch up to my parents. Sometimes celebrating those little things feels pointless in the long run, but I think it's those kinds of moments that we'll remember when we look back on the early days

P.s. - For all you haters out there, I reviewed Cloverfield for the last issue of the school paper and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will be posting a copy of my review in my readings section.

Muffy over and out

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