"I had a date on a horse, once." *everybody raises eyebrows*

Today was an interesting day. And finally, the initial school awkwardness has disappeared! The original headphones that came with my ipod bit the dust, though. *tear tear*.

It started out pouring, a joy when it's picture day. Oh, yes, let me rant for a second about picture day. I hate picture day. Especially since I always end up going to get my picture taken very late in the day because of alphabetical order. I feel so much pressure to keep looking good through the day, even though I really, in theory, don't care what the picture looks like.

French class was a great as ever when Katie and I are in a group. As in we didn't really get anything done, but decided that she's a pirate by night. Bharat wanted to copy my English homework, but wanted to find out if I was smart first. It bothers me that there are people who have strategy for copying homework.

At lunch, I had a pizza sub from Subway ('twas amazing) and listened to James yell at somebody not to anger the Subway gods. Kind of wish I knew the story behind that one.

Finally, during Chem, I got my picture taken. I stood in line and talked with people in my homeroom about pirates, ninjas, unicorns and monicorns. Apparently, monicorns are unicorns with swords for horns, according to some guy in line behind us. Gotta love random conversations.

I stayed after school with Moriah and Katie to try out for Twelfth Night. That's right, I tried out for a Shakespeare play. I've decided that this year, I'm going to try out new activities to find something I really like. I don't think my audition went terribly.

Moriah, Katie and I took the city bus back home. City buses tend to be filled with students, elderly people, and socially rejected people. It's also kind of strange, because you get to hear people interact with each other in close quarters. Today, I think that I came across the first real 'shady characters' I've ever seen on them. We got onto the crowded bus and found three seats in a row near the back. I didn't think much of the conversation the guys were having in the back of the bus about people not knowing what to do with their lives. But after that, it just kept growing funnier and funnier. Apparently they only go out east to shop, because 'everything else is gay'. Also, a Kevin character got drunk and threatened to stab somebody because they ripped him off. And for not knowing what to do with your life? The answer is to band together with your friends and 'make money'(after a while, it was obvious they were dealers). The best part was when they were talking about what they were going to buy when they went shopping:

Guy 1: "I am definitely buying new shoes. And a new jacket and maybe shades too."

Guy 2: "Kevin has 8 pairs."

Guy 3 giving impression of being really drugged: "Two more would be perfect."

Just the fact that they were using 'yo', just everything was great. They got off, and everybody at the back started laughing. The guy in front of us who had been reading a book the whole ride made a few comments under his breathe and mocked them a bit. "Two more would be perfect." It just kind of seemed like really bad acting the whole time they were talking.

Now I have time to sleep in and read and great stuff like that. Yeah!
-J-