Nationals

Alright, as many of you may know, I am going to be heading down to Atlanta this weekend (tomorro actually, just like 5 hours or so), and for those of you who do not know, I'm disapointed that you haven't been reading my blogs. Anyways, due to some special requests, my first bishop captured will be dedicated to Saul Schwartz, the next bishop goes to Arthur Kaplan, and then Eugene, and then Boris (though he is playing so I don't know, but I'm sure there will be enough pieces to go around). Michelle will be receiving credit for my first rook that I capture, and Diana will be getting the next one after that. Halle decided to take credit for the first knight. I asked Steven, but I he signed off immediately after I told him to wait, so sorry Steven, I'll just give you the second knight. To Emily Irvine, I will dedicate my first queen that I capture, simply because you're so nice, and you wrote me such a sweet good luck card. The next group of people will receive the honors of my pawns that I capture. That group is my english class, because they wrote me a card and signed it. The first pawn goes to Ben Williams because he was nice enuogh to actually write the card. The next pawns go to Eleni, Kasey, Seth, Colby, Alyssa, and finally Travis. The rest of my english class just didn't get the card in time, so you each will get the next pawns I capture. Finally, I come to Mandy, and while I didn't ask her, I've decided to dedicate all of the kings I capture, and I know you can't capture the king, so by that I mean the kings I checkmate or the kings that I cause so much suffering to that they resign, etc..... Anyways, to the rest of my family and friends, I dedicate the rest of my pieces to. This is all of course assuming that I will do well enough to give away these pieces. It could be that I only take 3 bishops. Well, I hope it doesn't come down to that, but if it does.... well, we'll work something out. Anyways, it's almost midnight, and I haven't even started packing for Atlanta, and I have to leave at 4:45 in the morning, so I will stop typing, and leave you at that. Enjoy, and I will talk to you all when I get back.

The Webster Challenge

So, tonight we had our typical practice from 8:30 to 10:30, and it was a lot of fun. Since there is a meet tomorrow, we had a fairly easy practice, and towards the end we worked on some starts, turns, and relay exchanges. First of all, for those of you who know you, you understand how truly random I am. To make matters worse, this was after I was tired from a ton of v-ups (for those of you who don't know what a v-up is, you're lucky, and try to keep it that way. If you're curious, ask somebody, but just understand that they're tiring) So I ended up doing 60 of those, and I was in some pain, and I was tired. Then for swimming, I swam the sets pretty hard, so I was tired. Now again, for those of you who know me, you understand that I'm random normally. When I'm tired, however, I'm even worse. I really don't make any sense. Therefore, I warn you now that this might not make any logical sense. I shall not be held responsibile for anybody who becomes stupider by reading this blog entry. And with that, I continue....

So I was out there, and the ways it works is somebody is in the middle of the pool, and swims in. The person on the block practices their relay exchange, and swim half-way out, and the process repeats itself until people realize that they can just sit on the bench nearby, and not even do anything. This was before that however. I was in the middle, and a Mr. Johnson (the names have been changed to protect the innocent, but his initials are N-uh..... alright, so I don't know his middle name-B. I started out very slow, though I don't know why. I think it might've been to make him think I was crazy (though most people already know that), or to psych him out on the exchange. Eventually I sped up, and very quickly, such that by the time I was in the flags (last 5 yards) I was sprinting. When I touched the wall, I realized that what I did was a build, and I did it instantly.

This is where I form my word (finally). So it was an instant build. Well you see all of those things out there, insta-coffee, insta-brownie mix, insta-artificial cafeteria food (that's gotta be the reason), etc..... Anyways, I thought I'd call it an instabuild. If we change the spelling around a bit, we get instabild. Now if somebody does this a lot, they would suffer from instability. Now, I look under Webster's so called dictionary, that's supposed to have all of the words and all of their definitions, but to my dismay, all I could find was the definition, "Lack of steadiness." I was outraged! I still am outraged! Therefore, I post this in order to warn everybody of this evil person, who is trying to corrupt the very lives of us all by leaving out definitions. Who knows what else isn't in that dictionary that should be. As outraged as I am, I am no longer checking the spelling or usage of any word by the dictionary. Instead, I am going to check it against my own knowledge. I hope you are all as outraged as I am, and join my in this boycott of words. This outrage will now be my fuel as I write my other blog.

Random Thoughts During Math
So yeah, it turns out that I'm not the type of person who has a lot to say. For those of you who know me, you understand how much I can talk if I'm in a good and talkative mood, so naturally, you'd expect me to be able to ramble on and on about the most random topics (since I am random), but I am having no such luck. I'm going to Atlanta this weekend, so I'm hoping that when I get back from that I'll have a lot to write about. Then, the weekend after I leave for Andros for an entire week. I know it's going to be sad, me being gone and all.... heck I'm starting to miss everybody already.... but when I come back, I'll have so much to tlak about, and also many many pictures. It's going to be so much fun. My sister's going to take me snorkeling, we're going to go to the bars (for the cultural experience(I hate alcohol)), we'll swim laps in church's bluehole, and it's just going to be so much fun. To all of my friends: I will miss you very much, and sorry I won't be with you all.

So I'm in math class as I write this blog (also the blog before). It's great. We don't have anything else to do, so we just sit around and do practically nothing. I was playing chess earlier. Right now, Arthur and Bobby are talking computer language, trying to get some media player on a computer from another computer, or from the internet. They're talking about all of these cords and cables that they need with the different port, and I realize something.... I don't know much about computers. I'm practically clueless. I've just been asked if the laptop isn't the coolest one I've ever seen. Honestly, it's not. I've seen this other one that's tiny (no, not a palm pilot), it's so cool. I saw it when we were at Wooster for Jenny's graduation (GO JENNY!!!!!!!!!! YOU RULE!). Wow, that was so much fun. I took my sister's cap and wore it, and I was pretending that I had just graduated. I actually convinced some people that I double majored in mathematical sciences and aerodynamical engineering. It was fun. Anyways, my family was making fun of me for it, and I think we even have a few pictures of it. Oh where was I.... yes computers. Ok, so it was really cool, and the one here now is alright. I don't know how they work, or which one is technically better, but I know they look pretty cool.

Another finer detail about computers that I pay special attention to is the backspace key. The backspace key is essential, and since I use it practically constantly, it has to be formatted to me specifically. I usually hit the backspace key on the left side, so when I use keyboards with the one square backspace rather than the long rectangle, it always messes me up so much. I end up with something spelled wrong followed by tons of little \\\\\ like coputer\\\\\ rahter than computer. It's so annoying, which is why my backspace must be a rectangle.

Well, the period is about to end, so I suppose I finish this up (you're probably thinking, "finally! It's about time."(Actually, I bet you have it so that you can see the end, and you were thinking that a while ago, but the more I write, the farther away the end gets, so to prove my point, and to be correct, I'll just stop here) Well, you asked for it Roger. That's right, it was Roger who complained about me never updating my blog. And you're probably reading this just because I update it so rarely that it must be important). Anyways, I'll try to write again later (wow, I should've studied for my physics quiz.... ah, I'll be fine, it's just a quiz, it won't kill me).

It appears that people have shown much interest in my blog, so I suppose I'll try update it more often. And just because people have been complaining so much, I'll try to write a lot more in each one.