the pendulum of life

So today has been an abnormally good day. Although I must admit I think I’m in a bad mood now. I’m not sure why. Ok so I know why… but this is not the point.

It all started off in physics… (This is where you run away and hide if you don’t want to hear about my day thus far. Keep in mind that I’m still in school when I’m writing this.)

We learned, in a nutshell, the physics of musical instruments. Of course, there was a lot that we didn’t learn, but the point remains, the focus of our notes, discussion, and demonstrations, where regarding the physics of musical instruments. I finally felt like I knew what was going on. I knew the terms, I knew what he was talking about… felt smart. Sometimes I really miss that feeling.

***later… at night***

English itself was wonderful. We did two book talks and started a third. Mine was first… I stumbled all over myself trying to explain a book I read 3 weeks ago, but I liked my question. It didn’t get quite the controversial response I was hoping for, but I think people were just afraid to be stupid. (logical, though) Shannon’s book talk went swimmingly. Well, her part was kind of boring (most likely just how mine was), but the question allowed us to go on all types of tangents. We were all discussing the “gangster wannabe” tendencies of some people in the school, as well as how some people cover up their bad qualities. The great part about it, was the fact that we were all being soooo elitest… in a way it made me happy that I’m not the only one. In another way it’s kind of sad because we’re doing exactly what we accuse everyone else of doing. We’re acting as the snobbish upper-class Shannon brought out in the play she read… we’re furthering stereotypes. (Interesting how that ties into the discussion Jon and I were having online last night regarding our two cities and how they’re horrifyingly the stereotypical white Christian suburbias full of hypocrites. And no, we did not disclude ourselves from that category.

At any rate, everyone was laughing and joking around in English yet making points and arguing. It was lively, it was good, it was fun. Tim started his book talk on The Lord of the Rings, which many people had read, and some had seen in the past few weeks. That was fun… gotta love Carmen. HAH, she makes me laugh, but it’s so great. And then even Laura and I were discussing the agent from The Matrix and how we couldn’t quite get into the fact that he was supposed to be an elf. I’m too conditioned to hearing his voice say, “Mr. Anderson…”

Speaking of movies, we went to see A Beautiful Mind last night. Mmm… good movie. Go see it. The strange thing is, it kept popping up today. Not the movie itself, because few people have seen it thus far, but rather the subject matter. Take for example Chris’s… seizure? But that’s not really what it was… more like a lapse. And then Scott was talking about schizophrenia during calculus… Lord knows why. Strange how all of a sudden I found myself surrounded by things related to the movie.

I’ve been so incredibly busy today. I stayed after school for combo, which didn’t end until 3:45. I then proceeded to talk to Alex for a half an hour until his mom arrived and drove me home. I then practiced from around 4:30 to 5:05. I was out the door by 5:15 to go to my piano lesson, and returned at around 6:18. I proceeded to do a calculus chapter review in preparation for Wednesday’s test until dinner, at around 7:05. I ate dinner, and by 7:30 I was back down here starting on a calculus midterm review. I didn’t make it too far through that before deciding I had had quite enough for one evening. So I wrote out my rewrite of that terrible German comp, and attempted to calculate my grade in German. 86%??? What is that? Geez, that’s a lot worse than I expected. My class rank is going down… I can see it now…

Back to my day… Nolan called me at around 8:45. We chatted, Alex called in the middle of it, Nolan and I chatted some more, then my mom got a phone call. So I ended the conversation with Nolan at around 9:50, called Alex back at 10, said goodnight at 10:02, and proceeded to whimper around my sister, who eventually got off the computer. And here we are.

Wow it seems really boring when you put it that way.

Well, I cried a little, I laughed a little, I was 200% bitch a little… mood swings? Yeah probably. But the only thing I could think was….

And so I’m off, being

~swept away by the pendulum of life~

@~>~>-dreamergrrl

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