The Science Bowl team assembles

So I'd been looking for Anna, as she still hadn't told me for sure whether or not she could go to SciBowl. Well I go to see Mr. Sayres today, and he tells me that the permission forms need to be in *tomorrow*. So, um, I kind of need to get one, then... as do Josh, Mark, and (presumably) Anna. (Emi already got one. It was also today, though.) Now somehow I'm thinking Mark, Josh, and Anna aren't actually going to go get it, so I take extras. I can't find any of them, though, so I scan it in and email it to them... that is, to Mark and Josh. I call them up and tell them it needs to be in tomorrow, etc.

Now, what about Anna? It's about 20:10 right now, I should note. I call her up[4] ... she's not home. She'll be back in an hour, her dad says. About 21:30, I call again. She'll be back in 40 minutes, he says. Sometime later - maybe like 22:10? - we get a call on the second line[0] - it's Anna. So, can you come to SciBowl? ...no. Hey wait, I told you the wrong date! It's actually the 26th! Can you come to SciBowl? ...still no.

The other idea was to get Fan as our 5th. Well, I am not calling him (or anyone else) up at this time of night to tell them that they need to turn a permission form in the next day for something they probably didn't know about till right now. So, we'll have a 5th person on our team if we can find someone tomorrow who can go and who is 18 and therefore can sign their own permission form[3].

-Sniffnoy

[0]For some reason, the Stalker Book has our first line listed by Elana's name, and our second line listed by mine. IIRC Anna has actually called us on the second line before for that reason... anyway, could you call on the first line next time? :-/
[3]My mom actually suggested that, if Fan isn't 18, I get him to get his mom to come to the school and sign it. I think it's pretty clear why I'm not doing that.
[4]And notice that the first 3 digits of her phone number are the same as the last 3 of Josh's.

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vodka and glows with an eerie green light.

"Oh! I'm sorry, Harry! I forgot you had a nose!" -Avi

So apparently the Marriage Project has been changed completely. It is now "Marriage around the world". You pick a country out of a metaphorical hat and have to do a report about marriage in that country. No resemblance to the old project at all.

Some of the countries included were Africa, Puerto Rico, and Native Americans. Ow.

Someone from the administration came to the senior lounge today and asked what we wanted added to it. Someone suggested a TV. Now, of course, the senior lounge already has a TV - brought in by a student, of course - as it would be a bit hard to play Smash Brothers in there otherwise.

The weird thing is, apparently, nobody actually knows whose TV it is. :-/

Avi walked into the senior lounge today holding an orange. He then suddenly just started staring at it. I meant to say "Be careful, Avi, the orange might bite you." but I accidentally started "Be careful, Orange... oh wow. I just called you an orange." I later told I Avi what I had meant to say. "Be careful, orange, the Avi might bite you... makes sense."

Says Brian: A cowboy hat can be used as a musical instrument either by hitting it or by stringing a rubber band around it and plucking it.

Totally unrelated to anything else, I went and changed my AIM profiles for the first time in n long time-units.

-Sniffnoy

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"Computer games don't affect kids negatively; I mean if Pac-Man affected
us as kids, we'd all be running around darkened rooms, munching magic
pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-Kristian Wilson