SATurday

Yesterday my sister and I took the SAT. We took the test at Cardinal Gibbons High School, my sister's favorite school that she'd never been to, because she got to pick. I didn't make a big deal out of the test, really. I guess that's because they've drilled so much practice into our heads over the years. So I wasn't really nervous or anything.

It's a good thing that they started with the essay portion first, because if it were last, I wouldn't have been able to think straight. You probably wouldn't either if you had been taking a test for almost five hours. Of the writing, reading, and math portions, I think I did best on the writing. Reading was pretty good except that I didn't know many of the vocabulary words (in spite of the fact that I've been fed a steady stream of SAT-level words in English classes for the past three years). And in math, I felt a few things that I should have known slipping away from me... mainly basic things from Algebra I and geometry.

Because the results of this test will influence how colleges think of me, and because I want to do the best I can, I'm considering taking the test again at some future date when I'll have improved my math skills. I guess I should decide about that and register as soon as possible.

I have about two weeks to decide what to do for the school Valentine's Day dance. I want to go with someone, but not just anyone. Having considered my option(s), I may just go by myself. That's because every girl I ever get interested in is somehow taken, and I'm not interested in any non-taken girls right now. Besides, the proceeds from the dance will support my class, and that's good. So, either I fall in love within the next two weeks (which is improbable, but not impossible), or I go by myself.

Read some Chuck Norris Facts, like these:

• In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Chuck Norris could use to kill you, including the room itself.
• Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves.
• Police label anyone attacking Chuck Norris as a Code 45-11.... a suicide.

HappyNews.com is a news site where all the news is happy. I'd imagine they don't update the site very often. But it seems that there has to be a bias on their choice of political stories such as this one: Greenspan's Fed Chief Reign Comes to Close. How many people would call that happy? How many people would call it sad?

Two years ago: "I tried learning Esperanto to fill this need, but I was too - dare I say - lazy to get past the words for 'here,' 'there,' 'this,' 'that,' etc."