Cheer Up Day/Swimming Pool Day
2005-07-11 @ 10:39 p.m.

My class is going to Phuket for a short holiday after the 'A's! Final chance for NAPFA coming up next week on Thursday! I feel motivated to actually do something to get a Silver, but it doesn't help that I just found out today that running with Ben isn't good enough. It really is mind over matter to a certain extent, isn't it? Anyway, I am well on the way to achieving ABCD for the Common Tests. Got an A for Mathematics, which kind of made my day after the sucky D for Economics that I got back today and C for History that I got back last week. It helped that I did thrash Jose! Haha, I feel so pathetic, a Humanitites student cheering about an A for Mathematics. All I want is a B for English, please? Certain people have such strangely impractical and naïve ideas. What the heck, it's just one girl I know. Even if there is something to be said for idealism, let it not be said in my hearing, at least not on this matter. I feel incredibly snarky right now, but there's nobody around to have their head bitten off. You know what, I like being snarky. I've been blog-surfing, and stumbled across one of Eugene's old entries, a handwriting analysis that prompted me to take a look at mine again. Some of the analysis is so accurate it's scary. Anyway, check this one out: "Ian will be candid and direct when expressing his opinion. He will tell them what he thinks if they ask for it, whether they like it or not. So, if they don't really want his opinion, don't ask for it!" Not quite the epiphany you were expecting? It'll have to do, because I'm going off now to finish The Feast Of July, which is good, but not quite deserving of the comparison with Hardy and Lawrence. Why doesn't love happen more often like it does in novels? Jeremy Taylor once said, "Love is friendship set on fire." I'm always trying to light the wrong fires. Damn it.