Yesterday I tried out for the musical at my high school: Once Upon a Mattress. Basically the Princess and the Pea as a musical. Anyway, the auditions went great, and I'm pretty sure I nailed at least callbacks, if not ensemble. The part I really want is the Jester, since he has a solo and two other songs which are all really good.
In other news, we now have a Korean foreign exchange student living in our home. It's kind of weird, since I'm so used to getting myself everywhere and being totally independent; not having to tow anyone around or wait for anybody. I think this is some kind of conspiracy between my parents and the Korean government to get me to be more responsible. Like getting home right after school, leaving for school at the right time, getting to bed earlier, etc. Also, I'm always afraid that I'll offend him in someway. Like if I eat my food holding my fork in my left hand or something. I don't know why, but I always feel like I might insult his honor or somesuch.
Apart from that, dance team is going very well, despite being two weeks from our first performance and we still don't have our choreography finished, and we're still waiting on costumes. The best part of the costume is obviously the fedora, which we get to do cool things with.
On to politics/news: Measures 66 & 67 passed. Sad day, more taxes and pressure on businesses and the middle class. Just what we need, right?
This news article caught my eye for the reason that I wrote an LD debate case on this very subject: compulsory vaccination, and my opponent always brought up this guy, and his link of the MMR vaccine to autism. Check it out here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100128/wl_uk_afp/britainhealthvaccinationchildrensocial. Had I known this I might have been able to crush my opponents more easily, even though I never lost an AFF during that resolution. Basically, this doctor took blood samples from children at his son's birthday party for 5 pounds apiece. Ethical? I think not.
I have never studied for a test in my life. I've last-minute crammed, but not studied, and so far that's worked pretty well for me. Throughout the entire semester I haven't failed one test, and gotten A's on at least 3/4 of them, including pretests. I have a huge semester math test tomorrow, comprising of chapters 1-5, and I haven't studied. Probably not the best idea. On the other hand, I had a stem word test in language arts two days ago, comprising of seventy-five stem words, only half of which I even partially knew the day before. My friend's flash cards, last minute cramming, and my incredible ability to memorize important information very quickly saved my grade, and I'm 100% certain I aced the test. Same thing with my Seminary final, my Social Studies final, my German final, my Chapter Five math test, and many more.
It seems odd that I have only ever written this blog at night, between 7:00 and 12:00. Maybe because it's my weird sleeping schedule. go to bed at 11:00 or later, get to sleep at 12:00 or later, wake up at 7:00 for family scripture-prayer, sleep on the couch for 45 minutes, get up, dress, leave for school at 8:00, and repeat the process. I've only had maybe 1-2 pessimistic thoughts in this post, and now I'll try and make it up. One day during a car ride with my family, about a month or so back, my brother and his wife were talking about Ripley's Believe it Or Not. Specifically the cow with one head and two bodies. My brother asked the question: "How does it decide which body gets food when it eats?" and I replied with "It doesn't. Eventually one body will die and the other will have to drag around its dead counterpart for the remainder of its miserable existence." Silence. Laughter. "That's the most pessimistic thing I've ever heard!" I didn't get it. It made sense to me. What strange people those non-pessimists are.
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That poor cow.
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