There's not much going on with me today... it feels. It's Thursday, so I have to work... it's supposed to rain off and on all day, it hasn't rained much though today, so hopefully it won't rain while I'm walking, rain while I'm at work, and stop around 5:30 when I go outside to bring the garbage out usually. I probably won't go for a bike ride tonight... we'll see how tired I am and how much my feet hurt, and if it's raining. Oh and I need to practice the trumpet today, 'cause I desperately need to, and we're playing for some kids from a local grade school tomorrow durng fourth period. Ahh I can't miss 4th again! I've missed to much of math, and totally bombed my last test.

So far in math we've had 6 unit tests. My marks were 72, 89, 74, 82, 85, and 64. Before the 64 my math mark was approximately 80%... now after this test it's approximately 78%... this sooo sucks! Last year I had something like 72% in math, and this year at mid-term i had a 77%... And now I brought an 80 down to a 78! =( I need a high math mark to get into university... especially grade 10. Hopefully I'll be able to redeem myself in trigonometry, our last unit (though we'll have a few tests).

While on the subject of my school subjects, in English we're reading Shakespeare's As You Like It... I don't like Shakespeare... although I'd probably like this one if it was written in English! None of us even understand whats going on! For the most part when we read it in class I read my own book and flip the pages of As You Like It when the rest of the class does.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, we're getting a heater for our pool! I can't believe it! I'm pretty happy about it, only the reason I didn't go in the pool a lot last year didn't have to do with the temperature of the water, but the bugs in the water, and having company going in the pool.... I hate swimming alone! I just won't do it... it's no fun at all.

Hmmm, what else... American Idol! Taylor Won! I'm phyced! My dad and I knew America wouldn't be stupid, and that he'd be the American Idol! Yay! He definetly deserves it. Soul Patrol!

Kay, anyway I'm gonna go read now. TTFN... Toodles!

People rely on the bible too much. Especially for things that weren't thought of or relevant in the times that the bible was written. People ask if the bible supported immigration. Umm, that shouldn't influence your feelings on the topic, whether you support it or not. And if it does, and you were to use the bible as support in an argument, then you better be Amish or something like that. You can't use it as an argument if you don't follow the other aspects of it. That means women can't wear pants, and you can only wear one material, etc etc. There was an awsome 'story'/article thingie for this. I'll see if I can find it sometime. Anyway class is almost done. Toodles.

I got my laptop! I'm so happy! I'm surprised my grandfather came through! I can't wait to go home tonight and use it!!! Only problem is I don't know if I will be able to get the TV on it. It has media center, but TV isn't on the main list, it's in settings though. I click it and it says that there's no TV tuner and it's not connected. I know it's not connected, I may need to buy a connector. I'll be okay if that's all I need, but if there's no tuner... And there's no radio tuner either. That's not that bad though. I connected it to the internet last night, and I downloaded the new MSN, all it had was Windows Messenger. I sure hope I'll be able to get TV on it! I'm shocked at how huge the screen is! It's a widescreen too. I'll have to download my games on it, but I think I'll do that this weekend at my dad's, with his high-speed net =D

Hmm, what else. My mom brought me out to a county road, I got to higher speeds. It was an 80 km/h road... I went 60 km/h for the most part, but my mom let me go up to 75 km/h once. I did pretty good =D barely any other cars.

We're probably going to Target next weekend! Yay! My mom and step-dad haven't gone to the states since my step-dad stopped working there like 4 years ago! I have some American money that's like been burning a hole in my wallet since October! =P

Anyway, I'm off. Wish me luck with the TV tuner! One website says it should have it =)

Canada is overlooked too much. We're just like the United States, only better but not a super power. Unlike the States we didn't wipe out two cities with nuclear weapons, and we didn't go to war with Iraq, but we did send peace-keeping troops to Afghanistan. Unlike the States we supply sufficient health care to all of our citizens, poor, needy, rich, and average. But like the United Staes we have great freedoms, leading science and medicine, arts, promise, and better diversity among our people (mosaic in Canada, melting pot in America). We are more open-minded about gay marriage (it's legal here), and if one person gets shot, the whole country hears about it, because it's so rare, while in the States shootings happen on a daily basis, and I can never walk down a Detroit road at night comfortably. I'm sure it's not as bad in other areas, but because I live so close to Detroit it's their news I watch, and it's Detroit's streets that I walk down to go to a baseball game. In Canada it's not your right as a citizen to carry a deadly weapon. Because of this, we also don't need guns to protect ourselves from maniacs who do, because not too many people have them. Just people like cops and hunters.
That's why I'm proud to say that I'm Canadian.

For me, sadness is like a heavieness. I weighs me down in my shoulders and cheeks. It'll do that untill something distracts me, such as someone coming to the door about the census. After that I want to dwell, still, on whats bothering me, because it's still on my mind, but it won't weigh me down... I feel like calling someone...

It's true, that your mind can repress memories, in my case a conversation was repressed with getting a laptop. The conversation was on Sunday, and I'd completely forgotten about it 'till a phone conversation today, and the Sunday conversation was brought up. If the person having the conversation was at all mature, or put together well, they wouldn't have involved me. I wasn't included in the conversation, it was between the woman I just mentioned and one of my Aunts. I was sitting right beside my Aunt, and it wasn't meant not to be overheard, but I tried to think of something else because it hurt my feelings alot. Who talks about someone who's sitting beside the person you're talking to? The woman is jealous of the attention I get... she's acting the way I should be acting with her being like this. It's not like we've ever really been peachy, there's always been jealousy between us, and she can be a real bitch sometimes, not just to me... I observe alot.

As I was writing above, I want to call someone, but there's no one really to call. The only person I've told is my mom, and there's not much more to say with her. In class we're reading The Catcher in the Rye, and a lot of my classmates hated/hate the book, but I'd really like it if we didn't get really hard questions on every single chapter. I think one of the reasons I like it so much is because the more I read, the more I can relate to the main character, Holden. Holden is really depressed alot, and finds alot of things and people phony, but also, throughout the book he always wants to call someone, and I'm like that. Though I only really like talking on the phone to family. Also, Holden has really intricate trains of thought, and it's easily started off onto something almost completely different than the trigger-thought; I do that alot.

Oh yea, I'm supposed to be getting a laptop! I've like always wanted one! Can't wait!

Anyway, I'm off. Ta ta.