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Hey all! its Saturday!! Nothing real great happening much....same boring stuff...no need to blog about that.
in the News: i caught the end of some show last night...20/20....Dateline....somethin like that. Anywayz, it was on the sniper and stuff. U kno...the sniper that was out like a month or two ago shooting pple in mah county and around here...all that drama and scary stuff. Well, there was this guy on, and he was talking about what might have been the sniper's motive: the guy's ex-wife and kids lived in Clinton (cause of my location...that scared me..) and the guy was real mad that he couldn't see his kids. So, 1. he went around shooting people out of anger; and 2. he did it here cause he was gonna make his ex-wife one of the victims eventually. It would look like she was just another victim...nothing unusual w/ a sniper out; and he wouldn't get caught.
I never thought of this before, but it makes sense. good thing they were caught. I hope they get the death penalty. Now; im not a big fan of the death sentance....i don't really think its up to us to decide when to end people's lives...but i think if anyone deserves that penalty; the snipers do. To many innocent people were killed or scared and things were all messed up for almost a month cause of them. I think they deserve that punishment.
Second big thing: Ok, this actually is more so school related...A few days ago we found out that the saludatorian from my school from last year committed suicide. He jumped off his college dorm roof. Thats so sad...i still can't believe it. I didn't know him personally...i remember him being pretty quiet....but i do remember seeing him in the hallways last year. My pre-cal BC teacher was pretty down about it...he taught him for 2 years. I don't think anyone knows why he did it yet...i still don't believe it.
I dunno...i don't see how you can just...end your life. I mean, sometimes its rough...but...i don't see how you could just...kill yourself as a way to make it better. We were talking about it at lunch a few days ago. was so sad....i dunno what else to say....
ill move on.....today... we had a swim meet. Against Surrattsville and Douglass. we won im almost positive...it was ok. I felt pretty laid back and calm; and i had a good time. I swam FLY in the 200 Medley Relay, the 200 FREE, the 100 FLY then i was in the 400 FREE relay. pretty good. I didnt like my 100 FLY....i swallowed water halfway through it not paying attention, and that really messed me up. In my first relay, i did pretty good but my swim cap came off most of the way through it and my goggles got water filled in them. After the relay i had to jump back in and fetch my goggles. Then they asked me to go dive down and get someone's goggles that had came off in the event before...yup...just my luck. lol Then, the 200 FREE, i did pretty good. I at least came in 3rd, but there was some controversy...somethin about someone stopped swimming early...or the timers did something wrong...i dunno. But i at least came in 3rd...ill find out what happened later. But it was pretty good. ok, ima go now. peace out!

random complaint: WHY ISN'T THE NEW LAYOUT IM PUTTING UP WORKING????

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Wow...stuffs been messed up lately!! Monday, we had a screwy schedule cause of Maryland Functional testing (which no one i kno took). So we had 1st period for like 3 hours and then 7th and 8th for about 1 1/2 hrs. each. 1st period i talked, messed around. Played charades...fun fun fun. And Taboo...that is a great game...real funny. 7th period me, Iyen and Mykella studied for our pre-cal quiz we found out we'd have that morning. 8th was the quiz, and i wish i hadn't wasted my time studying cause i still got a 68% on it. Everyone else got A's just about. I dunno whats my problem.
Yesterday (tues.) was our first normal day in awhile, since last Wed. was screwy cause of testing, thursday and friday was no school due to snow, and then moday was another messed up schedule. So yesterday, we finally went to all our classes. They all were ok...got to first period late cause of swim practice. Practice had ended early, so our team hung out at McDonald's for awhile. But when we went to leave, we found that Sarah (my ride)'s car was blocked in by some1 else. o well...only like 10 min. late. 2nd per. was lunch, 3rd per. did some simple geology stuff...4th period did busy work...i hate that class!! Its pointless and everyday i nearly fall asleep in there!! 5th, we've done the same thing we've done every day in there for the past month: go online and do what we want. I like playing Collapse. Its great. 6th was history...a normal class...and 7th and 8th were pretty uneventful...though 8th is always pretty funny. But...also in there 2day we got printouts. Ugh...i got a 69.1% in there....thats a D!!!!!!! I am soooooo screwed!! And progress reports come out next week!!! What am i gonna tell my parents??? I'd say i didnt get my progress report cause of a book fine...but im a HORRIBLE liar!!! But...i got a C in there last quarter...my first C in my life. And i told them im bringing it up...i thought i was!!! geez...im so slow at math. im so blown.
Today, we had a 2 hour delay cause of an ice storm...we should have had school canceled...we were the only county in the area that had 2 go to school...i swear, PG is the reject county!! It was deadly!!! I was walking to the bus stop...and this huge branch fell down like 5 feet away from me cause of the ice!! I was like...AAAHH! And all this ice was falling from the trees. It was sooo cold and rainy!!!!!!! At the bus stop was me, Steph and Shannon. And Shannon was like...ima run around to keep warm...and she walked away, but went under this tree...and i was like..."NOOOO!!! A branch will fall on you!!! Not under the tree!!!" it was so cold. But all our classes were only 30min. today, which was nice...didn't do much work. After school though was the joint GLOBE Club and Medical Club Christmas party (im in GLOBE Club). That was nice...we talked, had lotsa food and did a Secret Santa thing. Belinda got me some nice lotion. But i had 2 leave the party a bit early cause we had swim team pictures around 5pm. It was soo cold standing in our crappy mini gym in our swimsuits!! But it was funny...people kept making jokes. Then, Damon (sp? i can never spell pples names..) was acting funny. See, hes one of our managers....and is the only guy manager that i think we've ever had. When he first said he was a manager, we all thought he was joking. NEwayz, the managers in the picture were to wear swim team jackets and stand in the back row. But Damon instead took off his shirt and sat in one of the front rows were some boys who are swimmers were kneeling down. It was funny. And everyone was calling him the "guy manager" and joking around. Then he started mooning pple while we waited for the camera guy to set up...lol. The camera man was all like " sir in the front row...can you please fix ur...uh....pants." lol. it was funny. 2 many jokes going around. But yeah...thats my day. Came home and did homework...just Adkins tonight. nice. lol. so i got to go online...and update this!!!

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hey all! Interesting couple of days. Yesterday was our first swim meet. It was against Bowie (the *cough* best team just about) and Parkdale. Not saying Parkdale's bad or anything, but i think we should have beaten them. Im not exactly sure on our standings; but i think our boys lost to Bowie but beat Parkdale; and our girls i think lost to em all. Shucks. o well. i had a good time...tho my leg...AAHHH!! I couldnt do flip turns cause of my knee. i hope it gets better, but i think it swelled up more after the meet...not good. o well.
I swam a 50 Fly in the 100 yard medley relay, 100 Fly in that event, a 100 Free in the 400 Free relay and i swam the 500 Free. I kno my fly sucked, cause that was all messed up...and my knee did somethin funny twice during it so i could barely kick for fear of getting myself disqualified. And both my relay groups came in like 2nd or 3rd to last or something. But they felt good. And i came in 3rd in the 500 Free...big boost. I love the 500...its the longest event but it is soooo fun to me. :)
Then today i did some Christmas shopping w/ the little money i have. Trying to think of what to give my friends without breaking my bank account...still working on that. And choi mei just left a bit ago. She came over to work on Adkin's project. We're doing the case of Marbury v. Madison. We are almost done the outline so we are moving pretty fast. It sounds like this one will be pretty good....cant wait to film!!!
Oh yeah! read Lindsay's and Choi's blogs today. plan on reading more. And i read the Harry Potter fanfic Greg and Lindsay are working on. its sooo good, guys!!!!! keep me updated on when the 4th chapter goes up!!! If you other pple out there wanna read it, go to Lindsay's blog (click here) then go down and theres a link. its real good. :)