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The past week and a half has been filled with ups and downs, but I think everything is starting to level out as it gets closer to winter break. I've been a bit stressed out lately because of everything I've had to do, and taking care of my brother and grandparents while my parents were back in Alabama for my cousin's funeral really didn't help me. Fortunately, I've managed to catch back up with homework, I think I actually understand whats going on in most of my classes now, and in the case of AP Physics, thats pretty significant. Done with college applications, I'll start financial aid stuff this weekend.

Got my UW acceptance letter a few weeks back (actually, just a couple weeks after I applied) and I got my Stanford rejection a few days ago. Can't say that either of them came as a surprise, all that says is I got into my safety school and didn't make it into Stanford which was a bit of a reach. At the moment, I'm looking at USC as my top choice, followed by Cornell and UW.

Helped at the middle school social yesterday, that was actually pretty interesting. I've been working over there, partly as employment but mostly as community service, for a bit over a month. The social itself was a lot more tame than the old Discovery socials, they kept the lights on at Jefferson in the commons and rotated the students through the areas by grade... I guess they can keep a lot better control of them that way, but it just seems a bit different to me. It was funny to look at the groups of kids and try to picture what they would turn out like in high school.

Finally finished reading Pride and Prejudice... I'd have to say that it's a lot like many of Dickens' novels, it starts getting decent about halfway through the book and has a great ending that almost makes up for the long, boring introduction. Thanks to Powers and us not doing anything for the past few days in Comp Gov, I've managed to get a lot of my homework and reading done during school.

Yes, I have been driving the BMW this week. My mom's car is... well, hers, and in need of service to keep it from dying when it sits in the cold (ie: skyview parking lot) and the truck is back in the shop for a mysterious 'check engine' light that came on last week, 2 days after coming back from the shop. Go Toyota! At least, since it is a Toyota truck, it'll run for another 150,000 miles before the engine gives out.

Well, thats probably enough writing for now, It's getting close to my bedtime, almost 10:00. Bah... why do I do 0 period jazz band in the first place?