hello.

haven't been online since 3 yesterday.

since then, i have seen a lot of stars, done my first standardised test and gone ie skating.

so tired.

there were 9 of us and we all had astronomY names. i was lokkie. my buddies were: amy, candi, apie, leie (pron. lee-ee), manny, diggy, zacky and stevie (with whom i had a deep conversation about Ali G In Da House).

the bus journey to columbus, a city in texas in which the amateur observatory is. on the way we learnt vocab words for the PSAT (but nothing else) and we stopped off at my physics teacher's house to see his 12" telescope and his steam engine (tracks in garden).

the observatory was really a little concrete hut with a roof that comes off that house 3 telescope. i was hoping for a massive dome that opens with a massive white telescope. oh well. it was amazing that once we got out of the cities and things (dirt roads, horrible dirt roads with no reception) you can see a lot of stars without any magnifying equipment. i saw the milky my with my naked eyes and my naked eyes, even with glasses, are really blind. we also say uranus, lots of constellations and i can now name some, although they look nothing like their names. maybe except scorpio.

all lights were red filtered so out night vision didn't get ruined and there were fire ant hills everywhere which freaked me out. if i get bitten again (not sure if i did get bitten)i will surely have an allergic reaction and die. saw it on TV.

what else? the stars were so bright that i couykld see the bright ones without my glasses. mars was fabulous, brightest in the sky.

everyone saw ots of meteors, except me, who only saw one and forgot to wish. i was too blind anyway.

the toilets had red lights in them as well and we spent some time getting scaring/getting scared by people. also made everyone really paranoid by telling them about john titor, the guy who is apparently from the future and told message board geeks about immanent world war (2005 immanent). then we scared ourselves we we left in the bus in a non-lit dirt road by imagining men or mothmen walking infront of the bus.

got home at 1 something am. went to bed 2am.

woke up today 6 something am. read bits of the PSAT pack in the car. got there and followed some people into a room. too tired to say anything to anyone. too tired to smile. raised hand limply to greet.

the PSAT wasn't so bad, but i did find out that you can only take it once a year, and that it counts for some sort of state scholarship. was told that some people don't finish. i did, thank god. nothing stresses me out more than an unfinished test. i have angel to thank for my excellent vocabulary. for a TACITURN guy, he's got a big mouth.

then went to a fast food place called Chick Fil-A, i think, and then went ice-skating. forgot how much i hated it. i was stressed out the entire time on ice because remembered what happened last time (also first time) i wore skates. (karen broke a leg.) was repeatedly dragged back (once carried, then unceremoniously dropped) to the ice-rink. fell three bloody times when spun. not fun. got a blister on my little toe, which burst. feet in pain.

but it was all right. i now know even more people! very, very tired, though. and it feels like friday. when really i've lost a shitload of friday night and saturday day.

got the application stuff for the national youth thing. apparently i just need to send off a cheque for $1000 something (bloody hell. any sponsors?). but if i get in, i'll have to meet my state senator and stuff and when i get there i'll have to use my brain and pretend to be clever, of course. did i mention that i really don't care too much about politics? still be insightful, though.

if i go get in, the implications will be fabulously wonderful. the universities will Take Me! better send it off straight away. and all this because i remember third year latin. can you say silver platter?

majorly scratched pumas in the dark. in pain.

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th since 5th october 2001