So...

Big day today. Now I finally know what a full day is like! I can't believe it...

Let's see... Mr. Ross is slowly moving up in my eyes, but I still don't trust him. He's... interesting. Has a sense of humor, but he also seems to be dangerously fickle, so one must tread lightly. So the subject of our parodies of the school officials came up today. Now I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't like personal insults unless I know the person can take it and knows I'm joking. On the other hand, how can we not do the "Donna Fieldon Dance Party?" I've a vested interest in Coach Lindsay as an evangelist preacher because I distinctly remember a certain school-led prayer being led around 9/11 that, if it was legal, it was barely. Still, they and any other spoofs we do (Mr. Rogers reading an economic report during the apocalypse or something), could be seen as quite insulting. Maybe I could do an accordion number, that would be entertaining and would show everyone I'm silly too... oooo Ellen and I can do a duet while I play the accordion and she sings... something. There's comedy in there, I swear! We could do a parody of Gallo's award, maybe a mafia racket... So many ideas. Perhaps I'll ask the faculty's pardon before we do them.

Next up... I had four things to say, what were they? Well, Coach Roberts is annoying me a bit. He asks these discussion questions, we answer them, but he then repeats the question as if our answers weren't good enough/the ones he wanted. Ah well.

Card-board Club went well today, thanks to all who came. Stratego's Tuesday, hopefully bridge will be Thursday if special guest Andrew Campbell can show up. 14 people for the second day's a great number. I think it went pretty well; even Ben (the errant freshman who wandered in) behaved relatively well. I felt bad about Mr. Petko having to stay so often, but he said he probably would do it anyway and seemed pretty receptive to the entire idea. I guess in some ways he's what I want to become, minus the religion and seriousness.

There's the subject, seriousness. Something else I remembered in Ross's class is that it's remarkably easy to be negative and deride everything. I mean, any subject at all can be made insignificant and foolish. That's why there's a thin line between that sort of nihilism and romanticism. On the one hand, if things are taken seriously more might be accomplished, but often it's not entertaining and it makes people seem foolish. But if everything's a joke, well, it seems almost demeaning to life itself. I dunno. I need to remember to lighten up, remain positive, be facetious, but not let the inherent negativity of comedy get to me. I think that's the way I want to be. I'd like to be a true romantic, but I can't handle it. I get too upset, too virulent and it just gets ridiculous and ugly. But I have to remember not to deride everything and try to keep up good spirits. My mantra should be "Be happy, do happy, make happy." If only I was a warm, caring person... Ah well. I'll probably still revert to a pithy state eventually, but hopefully I can pull out. In other words, don't expect much progress here. You people ought to get blogs yourselves. I'm sure you've wonderful insights and opinions that could be of use to someone. Heh, if ya get bored sometime.

Alright, enough rambling. Tis Calculus time!