03.02.2004 ~ 10:46 pm
i befriended the cleverest debater girl in APUSH yesterday. we hadn't really talked before, except for when she said that her boyfriend sat next to Jude Law on a plane! (Mr. Law snores loudly, by the way.) she was very excited about how i'm from London, capital of culture and all that and kept interrupting me with questions. i'm used to flowing digression, but, as i mentioned before, she's the cleverest debater.
it all started when i sat in her seat with my Matt-signed poster. (it needs a snazzier name - A3!Matt, perhaps.) she thinks that he's cute. i have to agree, but it's not a particularly great photo of him. in fact it's the one up there^. so she helped me loads with revising for the timed essay today. she knew a lot, and i jotted down incoherent notes, piping in randomly with crap points.
ooh. i read an excerpt from Join Me in Speech. had the shortest introduction known to man and cut a lot off to fit it all in six minutes. did it in five and fifty odd seconds. no one laughed, which was quite disturbing. was the humour entirely lost on them? did they think that Danny Wallace was a scary cult-leading wierdo?
none of that matters now as i got 101%. apparently i had good stage presence. i forgot her exact words and am now kicking myself for it because this might be the best thing anyone ever says about me as a performer. good to know that all the drama-queening was practice for something. i am full of it (hubris) as my teacher said that it was something to emulate. (emulate! me! can you believe it?) one day, i'll have proper eye contact with my Gentle Audience. and then, i'll conquer the blushing and trembling!
amazed that some of the children couldn't work out what a bloke was. "curry house" seemed to be a foreign concept, too.
surely this is a sign, a divine intervention, even, that i should join Danny in his endeavours to make the world a happier place. isn't this what Jesus stood for? i shall compose a letter to him, right away, after the Science Olympiad competition and after i write some other letters. i'll take a passport photo of myself. where in Houston am i going to find a photo booth?
am not worried about Science Olympiad at all, even though i have three astronomy books now, and still know nothing abut thermal dynamics. ha ha, they can't make me do anything! i give hard work the finger!
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